Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been no advance warning. Before the day was over, however, this had already become a less unusual characteristic of terror in Ireland. Outside a bar in the small border town of Monaghan, 80 miles north of Dublin, another bomb exploded without notice. At least five people were killed outright and 20 more wounded, most of them critically...
...early sign was the cons' new awareness of their legal rights. Courts had long kept hands off prisons on the theory that wardens and guards needed virtually unfettered freedom to control convict populations. But judges too had experienced their own consciousness raising and could no longer overlook outright brutality. If the right not to be barbarously treated was recognized, could other rights be far behind? The Black Muslims scored a major victory when they persuaded federal courts in 1961 to recognize their right to bring suit protecting their religion. Other legal challenges followed. In a series of state...
...could not help noticing how glibly you offered "the only alternative" to subsidies for Pan Am and TWA-"outright nationalization." There is another alternative: for Pan Am and TWA to cease overseas operations. If foreign countries want to burden their taxpayers with the unrecoverable costs of airline operations, let them do so. I see no reason why American taxpayers should also be victimized...
...Those cats are outright, stump-down, two-bit fascists," Seale said of Nixon's administration...
Rogers cautioned that the situation in Portugal at present is extremely fluid, but he speculated that Spinola may seek to replace outright colonialism with a confederation similar in some respects to the French Union or the British Commonwealth...