Word: outrightly
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Twinge of Irritation. Politics being politics, no one was going to accuse Wilson of outright plagiarism. But Heath, whose own days as Conservative leader are clearly numbered, must have felt a small twinge of irritation when the Prime Minister, who had campaigned as an unabashed socialist, announced that his new Labor government would act quickly to ease the serious cash shortages of British industry. Wilson even issued a mild warning to his union supporters that they would be allowed no more than their fair share of Britain's ever shrinking economic...
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...
...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...