Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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raid was an outright reprisal for the previous night's incident; the police claim that they were merely answering a distress call...
Silence ought to be the motif of such a room, or so one might think. Instead, it is raucous with gallows humor. There is probably not an outright comedy on Broadway at which one could clock more smiles, snorts, giggles and guffaws. Quite apart from the patients' sometimes grisly jests, the response of the audience obviously has complex, uneasy, psychological roots. Laughter is a wonder drug by which man anesthetizes his consciousness of mortality...
...School does not own the shuttles, but leases buses and drivers from the William S. Carroll Company. Harvard owns the red and gray H-R shuttles outright and pays students to drive them...
...currying-or outright buying -of future governmental favors by private interests through campaign contributions to both parties has long been one of the most degrading features of U.S. political life. In Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign, it reached new depths. Last week the Greyhound Corp. became the 16th corporation to plead guilty to making illegal contributions...
...politics of Premier Gonçalves and Spínola's more conservative stance. Spínola worried that the junta's policy of allowing all political parties to organize freely would permit the Communists to acquire too much power before the election. He also opposed granting outright independence to the African territories, favoring instead a referendum that would let them unite with Portugal if they chose. In recent weeks, he announced that he was taking the settlement of oil-rich Angola into his own hands, and had set up meetings with the white business community while ignoring...