Word: downright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comes stealing up on us first in the wide eyes of very young children, who see Christmas shining a long way off. Older brothers and sisters are more nonchalant; they can be downright businesslike about it. A camera would be O.K., but how about a snowmobile? As the day approaches, the spirit settles over them, too, like fresh snow on a busy town. Parents come round last, rushing from toy stores to cocktail parties, muttering about the cost of evergreen trees, chilled by the cold glare of Christmas bills to come. By Christmas Eve, though, everybody is a willing conspirator...
...really my style to play angry, but when it comes to Yale I have no trouble getting downright vicious," Casto said recently. "I consider the Yale game a season in itself and a victory this year in the Bowl would erase our losing record, leaving me with one sweet victory by which to remember my Harvard football career...
...labor settlement will help Chrysler to get federal aid. The Carter Administration has insisted that as a precondition for help Chrysler must win concessions from its bankers, dealers, supliers, executives and workers. Everyone las been reluctant to be the first to act, and some have been downright ornery. Only three weeks ago, nearly one-third of Chrysler's 180 bankers voted against renegotiating its credit lines, arguing that even a federal bailout might not save ;he company. Now that the U.A.W. has Broken the logjam, and with the presidential primaries approaching, support for Chrysler is gaining momentum...
Although Harvard has suffered embarrassing, if not downright humiliating losses to three league teams (Cornell, Penn and Columbia), they all occurred in the first half of the season and on rugged courses, long on treacherous footing and short on the speedy stretches that many of Harvard's track specialists prefer...
...sparse plot, downright anemic; yet O'Morrison fleshes it out with the wondrous detail of bygone commonplaces. In this household, light comes from kerosene, refrigeration from an iceman, fruits and vegetables are preserved and the tele phone and vacuum cleaner are wild rumors. It is a simpler world but not a qui eter one. The women fuss and explode over trifles, then sing together in tranquilizing harmony...