Word: downright
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rube Goldberg machine going double time. Denmark's Karl Kroyer is a different sort. Last week, shortly after New York's Martin Marietta Corp. snapped up the rights to make a Kroyer-patented, skid-resistant highway surface called Syno-pal in the U.S., the Dane seemed downright bored. "To make an invention is an intoxication," said he. "But the rest -to make it work, start production and complete negotiations-is one big hangover...
...Teutonic matron. Knighthood was still in flower -in the ballads of troubadours who wandered from manor house to manor house. E.S. captured the spirit of it; his saints and sinners, knights and ladies tiptoe through dainty Alpine primroses to dally on wattle fences. At times he was downright satirical. His Samson is a knave in a tunic and Tyrolean hat, his Delilah a Hausfrau who has slipped away for an afternoon assignation. As for St. Sebastian, E.S. portrays him peppered with arrows by a merry lot that looks for all the world like Robin Hood...
Despite such seeming largesse, the industry's offer could hardly be taken seriously except as an initial bargaining position. Almost completely ignored were such key Reuther demands as a guaranteed annual wage and parity between U.S. and Canadian workers. And the union leaders thought that the automakers were downright insulting in their suggestion to put a ceiling on U.A.W.'s cherished cost-of-living escalator clause...
...times there is a downright frightening aspect in those sections. Take MEDICINE'S story on the venereal-disease detectives, who found the number of cases increasing at a runaway rate in the U.S., despite the efficacy of antibiotics, and discovered cases of children who had contracted VD before they attained their teens. On the other hand, there are refreshing notes, like SPORT'S story of the mighty minnows who are keeping the U.S. pre-eminent in girls' swimming competition...
...American Cancer Society, adding coolly that "we would welcome evidence on the biological effect of cigarettes with this new filter"-evidence that Strickman and Columbia might have been able to supply if they had held up their announcement for a few more months. One leading cancer researcher called it "downright peculiar" that Columbia had merely farmed out the filter experiments to a commercial laboratory-ignoring its own eminent medical researchers...