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Word: outrightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the circumstances, the only way to keep the Pudding's presumptive risibility from starting a short slide into unredeemed offensiveness (short of breaking outright with all-male tradition, which, as a Theatrical co-producer explained two years ago, would result in "pressure to present a great musical") is to make everything else equality ridiculous. That way, the show doesn't need to depend on drag jokes or anti-homophile inferences--in fact, they can be eliminated entirely. Instead, in show in which royal banquets where "the liquor flows like wine" are interrupted by would-be regicides with wooden spoons...

Author: By Seth Kupferherg, | Title: A Fractured Fairy Tale | 3/7/1975 | See Source »

PUCKING AROUND-The win clinched for Harvard a second straight outright Ivy title. Harvard is now 10-0 in league play, and is shooting for its first perfect Ivy season since 1957, Defenseman, Eddie Rossi set two Harvard records for defensemen with his two assists in he game. Rossi now holds the records for most assists in a season (227) and points in a season(30). The old records were 25 and 30 respectively. Yale goalie Stenson, a surprise starter, was impressive, stopping 25 shots, including a couple of gems off Gauthier and Dan Bolduc... Petrovek lowered his ECAC leading...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Harvard Takes Watson Thriller From Yale, 3-2 | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...desperation, the military declared outright war and drew up an extermination program. Crop-dusting airplanes and helicopters would douse the roosting birds with Tergitol S-9, a strong, biodegradable detergent that washes the oil from the birds' feathers. Without the oil, which helps to insulate them, the blackbirds would begin to die from the cold -if the temperature remained below about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The War on the Blackbirds | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...only reference to affirmative action, Weinberger conceded that there might be a "lowest common denominator" in higher education "such as ending outright misrepresentation and abuses" that might be imposed by the federal government...

Author: By Jenny Netzer, | Title: Weinberger Discusses Higher Education | 2/22/1975 | See Source »

...North. While only 25% of black pupils in the South are still attending largely black schools, the percentage in the North is still 49%. The movement for Northern school desegregation has become mired down somewhere between interminable court delays in Los Angeles, uneasy anticipation in Detroit and outright racial violence in Boston. In most large Northern cities, it seems, the pressure for desegregation has been significantly relaxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Retreat from Integration | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

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