Word: downright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took exception. The article, under the pen name Bernard Dorrity and the title "Let's Secede from Texas," described the state as a "geographical hemorrhoid." Its cotton land "is now poor and desolate," its grazing lands "worthless," its "mean, mangy and narrow" citizens are "boors when sober [and] downright dangerous when drunk." If Texas women "are pretty, they're Mexicans. If they look like horses, they're Texans . . ." Texas cowboys can't even ride horses; on the last U.S. equestrian Olympic team, the "members came from Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
Likewise, converting Communists, it is better to criticize Stalin using the works of Lenin than the speeches of Eisenhower. the book of starry-eyed Democrats like Howard Fast find countless more soft spots than the Free Enterprise catechisms of Clarence Randell. It is not just ironic, but downright dangerous to the success of the Voice, when a high priest of Orthodoxy like McCarthy makes political capital by denouncing the use of works by "subversives" when they are the most effective weapons...
...aluminum safety helmet at a rakish angle and pushed a plunger to explode 50 lbs. of dynamite, the first blast in the construction of Haiti's $21 million Little TVA in the Artibonite Valley (TIME, Jan. 12).* A small boy in the crowd of 2,000, expecting something downright atomic, heard the muffled whoom and muttered, "Pas bon [no good...
Reaction to the new substitution rule* was immediate, often indignant, but generally downright delighted. Surprisingly, some of football's big-time coaches, who have the money and manpower to benefit from the two-platoon game, were in favor of the change. Said Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson: "It's in the best interests of the game. The two-platoon system has a tendency to make big teams bigger and little teams weaker." Colorado Mines' Coach Fritz Brennecke saw other benefits: "It will reduce the pressure on recruiting and finances . . . Everyone will have to know how to block...
...that the rule will result in a "less appealing type of football." This also is quite true from a Princeton perspective; but for people with Crimson, Blue, and Green scarves the sight of good old-fashioned dirt blending with Orange and Black will probably be quite pleasing, if not downright "appealing...