Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the war, bloodstained melodramas full of brutality and violence have been especially popular on the U.S. screen. Last week Britain's Board of Film Censors sternly warned Hollywood-and producers elsewhere-to mop up the gore or have offending films scissored to bits and possibly banned outright...
Factories for Russia. Industrial production targets in a "two-year plan" for Dairen published last January ranged from 5 to 30% of Dairen's prewar output. All of the city's major factories have been either taken over outright by the Soviets or organized into a system of "Sino-Soviet Trusts...
...Church" theory set forth in "From the Housetops," is reported to have asked the editors of the quarterly to submit all manuscripts to the Chancery (the Archbishop's office from which he manages the affairs of the archdiocese) before publication. It is further reported that Father Feeney refused outright to submit to this censorship...
...canny Representative Carl Vinson clapped down his gavel and brought the proceedings to order. His Armed Services Committee had met to consider grave charges: that the Air Forces' controversial B-36 bomber, the nation's prime strategic weapon,,was a product of political finagling and outright crooked practices in high places...
...socialism," shrewd "Paco" Arana had patiently listened to a string of well-heeled callers telling him why he should send "that damned schoolteacher" back to Argentina (where Arevalo spent 15 years). A smart politician, Arana was friendly to all, made promises and took no action-except to put down outright revolt. He did not want to upset the government; he wanted to be elected President himself in 1950, when Arevalo's term ends...