Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Duvalier still has backing from the U.S., which last week announced an emergency grant of $6,000,000 to meet Haiti's budget and trade deficits through September. Money is vitally needed; because of poor crops, the causes of death in Haiti this year will include outright starvation. The grant is also a frown from Washington on all plans for invasion and backyard...
...pharmacology director, quotes the Swiss Alchemist-Physician Paracelsus (1493-1541): "Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy." Some chemicals are poisonous over the years even in minute doses, and these the FDA will ban outright. But in the main, under its new legislative charter to protect the public health, the FDA will be applying old Paracelsus...
Nothing seemed more logical than to give the American post to Archbishop James, succeeding Metropolitan Michael, who died in New York last July. But behind his election loomed a split in the Greek Orthodox Church, and outright mutiny against towering, white-bearded Athenagoras I of Constantinople, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Athenagoras' enemies call him a "religio-politician," while his friends point to the unique problems of a job in which his predecessor went mad. The Patriarch of Constantinople has only the power of persuasion among three others of equal rank, ruling the patriarchates of Alexandria...
Seattle's newly formed A & M Burglary Alarm Signaling Device Co. found nothing in the item to chuckle about. Although not named outright, A & M, the only such three-man firm in the city, declared that it was easily identifiable. A & M admitted that one of the trio had two felony convictions (not for burglary), but the other two had clean records. The firm's members filed a $175,000 libel suit...
Contrary to radio and newspaper reports, Coulter and Nathan said they are "still considering" whether to press charges against the officer. "It is hard to show the difference between reasonable roughness and outright brutality." Coulter explained. "It's just one allegation against another...