Word: downright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's leading anti-Stalinists, but he is still a Communist in spirit and practice. Last week Tito, who plans a friendly visit to Britain in March, was trying to curry favor with Roman Catholics while continuing to attack the Vatican; and he was being downright gracious to a former enemy, Germany...
Many a Marine-from noncoms in the line to the Washington headquarters of General Lemuel Cornick Shepherd Jr., 20th Commandant of the Corps-had come to regard the Korean war not only as a frustrating mess, but as a downright dangerous and softening experience for new troops. "In World War II when you hit a rock," said one indignant master sergeant, "you knew that the enemy was getting your big punch. Here we are holding back. Kids who come up as replacements, even if they are regulars, don't know what the Marine Corps means." A colonel who approved...
...Herblock so wonderful? What is it that makes his work so much greater than anything you can think of? The answer is fairly simple. He describes events of the day in terms of their real significance, stripped of pretension, rationalization, or downright deception...
...Fourth Symphony exhales an altogether different atmosphere . . . gay, melodious, sometimes downright boisterous. Its easy appeal, even at first hearing, may soon make it one of the most popular of contemporary American symphonic works...
...that Eisenhower was responsible for the Berlin blockade in 1948, said Dewey, was "the most shocking exhibition of hypocrisy and downright fraud." Dewey, an accomplished television speaker, had a little show prepared to make his point. He cracked a raw egg into an ash tray. This, he said, symbolized the "mess" the politicians made of the German situation. Then, said Dewey, the politicians ordered Eisenhower: "General, you put that yolk back into...