Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...section of H.R. 5940, the new bill calling for federal aid to medical education, provides that scholarships be given by the government to qualified medical students. As in the case of outright financial aid to the medical schools, this proposal has raised a serious controversy between the government and the medical profession...
...brought up before Congress last Spring. If it passes, a five-year program of aid for education in medicine, dentistry, nursing and related fields will be set up under the Surgeon General and will be administered by the National Council on Education for Health Professions. 'The bill provides for outright financial grants for instruction and expansion plus a federal medical scholarship program. The latter will be taken up in the second article in this series...
...past two months Peron has authorized, if he has not actively directed, the most widespread and relentless attack on press freedom that modern Argentina has ever seen. In that time his favorite congressional hatchet man, José Emilio Visca, onetime butcher, has closed 58 newspapers and magazines outright. By taking control of the country's chief newsprint stocks he has gained the power of life or death over virtually all the rest of the press...
...world may be a grim place, but British Novelist Joyce Gary is not the man to learn it from. Most of his favorite characters are as much in need of reformation and social uplift, if not outright restraint behind bars, as the characters of William Hogarth. Nonetheless, give or take the cautionary ends they usually come to, they enjoy themselves tremendously. Gary's distinction is that, almost alone among contemporary authors, he works in the tradition of Henry Fielding and the old English novel. With The Horse's Mouth, which completes a trilogy, more U.S readers...
...surrealism, Leonid never paints outright fantasies, "but I like to discover the surreal things that exist in nature. I look for the paradox . . . like men reaping seaweed or growing mussels in regular vineyards under water...