Word: outrightly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bureau office itself. The field picture was even more dismal. Uninformed agents, without any field intelligence training whatsoever, insisted upon ordering the informants' strategic moves, demanding absolute obedience. This resulted in a staggering attrition rate among Bureau informants. Those who succeeded in the field owed their success to outright rebellion against illogical and/or potentially compromising Bureau directives...
...Collins cringed at the thought of comparing landmarks like Mount Vernon and Bunker Hill with the Sacco and Vanzetti courthouse, and argued that in their case "justice had been served as well as it could have been with a jury trial." The proposal has yet to be rejected outright, but the odds are that Sacco and Vanzetti have lost again...
Military conscription must be abolished outright. Otherwise, nothing can prevent this nation from becoming a military-police state. Hugh B. Hester Brig. General U.S. Army...
...Senate committee headed by Indiana Democrat Vance Hartke has been listening to other proposals, including outright nationalization of the Northeast lines, or nationalization of their rights of way and federal assumption of track maintenance in exchange for a toll charge paid by each railroad. Congress will have the final say, and if it cannot agree on some plan in about three months, the Government's hand may be forced by the federal court that is overseeing the Penn Central's operations in bankruptcy. Federal Judge John Fullam has given the railroad's trustees an ultimatum: devise...
...even more important cause of black alienation from Women's Lib may be the distrust, if not outright dislike, of many black women for white females. For one thing, black women are furious with whites for "stealing" their men, as evidenced by the rising total of marriages between black men and white women. Besides, black women see no reason to believe that a society in which white females held positions of power would be any fairer to blacks than a system dominated by white males...