Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic imperialism of outright colonies, governors-general and armed garrisons has ended. A few tattered remnants have survived, such as the three Portuguese colonies in Africa, but the great majority of Third World nations won their independence in the great wave of nationalist fervor and imperial retrenchment that swept the world in the two decades after the end of World War II. Nominal independence for many Third World nations has changed the character of the imperialism Lenin described. It has not ended...
Several conservative Republicans have already admitted outright that cloakroom talk of resignation has begun. Senator Milton Young (R-N.D.), told The Crimson Friday. "I've heard some talk of asking the president to resign in the Senate. If the president's position with the public continues to decline, I think it could happen...
Although most of them are not yet ready to support outright the moves to impeach the president, leading Congressional Republicans last week indicated that they are, in one senator's words. "taking the logical course and moving away from Nixon...
This view is lent plausibility by the lack of evidence of Russian belligerency and above all by the frequency with which Nixon has distorted the truth and lied outright in the past. These deceptions range from his tales of respect for Cambodian neutrality when his bombers had been killing Cambodians for two years to his misrepresentations of Elliot Richardson's and Thomas Jefferson's political positions during his press conference last week. Henry Kissinger is of course correct in saying that questions about the motives behind the alert are symptomatic of what's happening to the United States...
...than the legally permissible 10% of its assets to companies controlled by a single individual: C. Arnholt Smith. Smith's enterprises turned out to be the bank's biggest credit risk; his companies' bad debts constituted an unspecified but large percentage of the $143 million in outright losses and possibly uncollectible loans that U.S. National had on its books...