Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...negative side however, the Seabrook protest underscored many of the problems encountered by involved citizens who attempt to express a specific grievance these days: excessive bureaucratic red tape that must be waded through to stage a demonstration of any size, broken promises made by the responsible authorities, and even outright deception...
Well, this is clearly insufficient, if not outright misleading. How then, does Webster's define "experience"? Quite simply, it doesn't. It's a very bad dictionary. In fact, some editions of it have been known to bite small children...
Voice Messages. Customers can either rent the pocket pagers ($16-$35 a month depending on the model) or buy them outright ($175-$400). Some models come equipped with earphones, flashing lights or vibrators for use in high-noise areas. Doctors and lawyers often choose Motorola's Pageboy II with its computer-like Mem-O-Lert, which silences the call but records it for retrieval later on. The most elaborate pagers produce voice messages...
...frankly Marxist. His scenario, set in the rural Po valley, celebrates the rise of the Communist movement among the peasants and its ordeal under decadent landowners and brutal Fascists. Is this waving of the Red flag the real reason for the movie's rejection? Nobody will say so outright, but it is no secret that privately some Paramount executives are appalled by it. Says one: "The last half-hour of the film is a gigantic May Day rally...
...reversed himself by abandoning his quick-fix approach to stimulating the economy with a $50 tax rebate for nearly every American. Having finished his review of 32 dams and other water projects that he had threatened to cancel, he again reversed himself by reprieving about a third of them outright and agreeing to the completion of parts of another third; he insisted that the rest be scrapped. He announced a mild anti-inflation program that offended neither labor leaders nor businessmen...