Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite these dangers, Washington is aware that the U.S. is Israel's last resort, and an outright rejection could be dangerous. Rather than be outgunned and outmaneuvered eventually, Israel might carry out a pre-emptive strike that could draw Russians and perhaps Americans, too, into a Middle East war. Some observers also note that Israel, with a nuclear reactor in the Negev as a source of enriched plutonium, could build a nuclear weapon in a matter of months. Though the Israelis have vowed that they would not be the first to introduce nukes into the Middle East, would they stick...
...euphemism, as politeness, the argument that women are "different" is sure to become the most popular argument for men to use against Women's Liberation, but Dean Peterson does not stop there. He teaches outright female inferiority...
After waiting a month, Clay angrily released the text of the refusal, intending "to make it known at this time our outright disgust with the President's policies and his refusal to give us an audience." Since they submitted their request, Clay said, Nixon has found time to meet with "representatives of 11 patriotic and veterans groups, the Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam, golfer Arnold Palmer, and singer Johnny Cash...
...Plot. Ostensibly the last of the 19 LPs turned out by the Beatles in the extraordinary six years of their fame, Let It Be is also one of their worst. The Long Winding Road, for example, with Spector's broad-brushed addition of strings, harp and choir, is outright embarrassing. Most of the takes were recorded in early 1969 during the shooting of a Beatles film happening, also called Let It Be. While the film (to be released this week in the U.S.) has no plot, its basic theme appears to be "a day in the recording life...
...Government's claim that it is bombing only military targets in northern Laos is "an outright, cynical lie," Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at M. I. T., charged yesterday afternoon...