Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...struggle, the No. 2 spot on the ticket appears to be increasingly within the grasp of a talented and tainted Texan who can outdazzle either Republican-and just possibly the Democratic ticket as well. The prospect of John Connally as a candidate for Vice President evokes emotions ranging from outright delight to abject despair, for few politicians engender less neutrality than Connally, the millionaire international lawyer, former Governor and Treasury Secretary whose assets and liabilities are formidable...
Kramer and Roberts are at their best when describing the way in which Rockefeller made New York work for him, his forte. The reader senses in their attitude towards him a cynicism bordering on awe, at his ability to terrify, dispence patronage, impress, and when necessary, buy outright, whatever and whomever he wanted in the state. Strangely, it was these very qualities that prevented him from getting the only thing he really wanted. Given the changing character of the Republican Party, winning it would have required a humility and sensitivity that it is perhaps unreasonable to expect from a Rockefeller...
...time had come. In the 15 months since Lexington and Concord, the colonial psychology has changed profoundly. Radicals like Boston's Samuel Adams and other revolutionary leaders played a canny waiting game, delaying the call for outright independence until popular sentiment clearly swung away from King George and reconciliation. The radicals declared until nearly the last moment that the Colonists wanted only their rights within the British Empire, thus denying the Tories the chance to brand them as extremists who were misleading the people. Counseled Sam Adams: "Wait till the fruit is ripe before we gather...
...even slow it so long as King George and his majority in Parliament support it. The King directs the government on essential matters of policy, and he is more belligerent even than most of his ministers. Through his ability to grant sinecures, offer jobs and give outright cash bribes-not to mention his unquestioned power to appoint new members to the House of Lords -George has firm control of at least a third of the members of both houses, the "King's Friends," while another third can almost always be counted on to fall into line...
...time of the Ford decision, 50 Americans attached to the embassy and some 1,400 other American citizens remained in Beirut; more than 6,000 had left over the past year of strife. Still, Washington's order did not amount to outright evacuation; it simply "strongly urged" Americans to leave−part of a relatively low-key approach that envisaged the use of U.S. military force only as a last resort. The President called the killings a "senseless, outrageous brutality," but he also declared that the U.S. would not be "deterred from its search for peace by these murders...