Word: downright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they agreed to an hour-long televised debate, the nation looked forward to a spirited exchange of their divergent views. Anticlimactically, last week's spectacular, displacing the Hollywood Palace revue on the ABC network, was no showdown, and it wasn't even good show biz. It was downright dull. Nearly two-thirds of the way through the confrontation, Moderator Frank Reynolds declared plaintively: "Well, there don't seem to be very many differences between Lyou] on anything, really...
Compared with the marches of yesteryear, the antiwar demonstrations that sizzled and, in most cases, fizzled from New York to San Francisco last week were downright duds. Only 400 marchers turned up under drizzly skies in Washington's Franklin Park, where their modest demeanor, punctuated with a scattering of McCarthy buttons, struck an odd contrast to the motley of the Pentagon marchers last October. Boston's 500 demonstrators scarcely disrupted the weekend traffic...
While the Dorado Beach strategy did not take the mainland by storm, it was a viable working plan as long as Romney remained afloat. But premature and excessive exposure, clumsy articulation of ideas and downright ineptness, especially the "brainwashing" blooper, dissipated his early popularity. After his withdrawal, Romney volunteered that he had entered the competition before fully developing his positions...
...profession that prides itself on impeccable dignity, Atlanta Banker Mills B. Lane Jr., 56, often seems downright outlandish. To help promote Georgia's fledgling woolen industry, he once brought in a herd of sheep to graze in his bank's main lobby. Emphasizing the virtues of teamwork, he has arrived at official meetings decked out in baseball and football uniforms. At one meeting, anxious to rev up competition among his bank's various branches, he showed up at the wheel of a child's toy car. And to make the point that the bank...
Time was when owning a houseboat was considered downright lubberly. Proper yachtsmen snickered whenever one tied up at the dock, and out on the water skippers of fast-moving cruisers delighted in leaving the lumbering arks pitching and wallowing in their wake. Not any longer. There is a new kind of hot houseboat that comes with a deep V hull and powerful twin in-board-outdrive engines, and can plane at speeds of 30 m.p.h. or more, as fast as conventional cruisers costing twice as much. With prices beginning as low as $9,000, houseboats are gaining converts faster than...