Word: downrightness
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...Gilchrist's stories, there aren't any good ones. The relationships falter and die because of the men who are narrow-minded like Rhoda's father, or selfish like the married man in "Anna, Part I" or downright violent like the Lebanese immigrant in "The Emancipator" and the Black husband in "Memphis...
...statement on Capitol Hill. His words won a measure of forgiveness from Gray and Leland, thus perhaps defusing political and economic consequences of the affair. But as Professor Shibuya's blast indicated, the Prime Minister still had an earful coming from educators, who rated his remarks simplistic, if not downright wrong...
...undergraduates would do well to direct their protests towards the "invitation only" functions scheduled for the College 350th Celebration. It is unfortunate, perhaps insensitive, for Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III to schedule a ball that only some of the students can attend; it is downright offensive for him to choose who will be invited to lavish teas and dinners based on some nebulous conception of merit...
...angered supporters of sanctions. The mild-mannered Lugar called the textile deal "hard to believe." Pennsylvania Congressman William Gray termed it "lunacy." Protested Democratic Congressman Butler Derrick, of textile-producing South Carolina: "We're wrapping ourselves in % the misery of that country's black majority. It's downright idiotic...
...tidal wave. Among superpowers, the Communist Soviet Union appeared to be gaining in international prestige and influence, while the capitalist U.S. seemed to be declining. Racked by oil crises, recession and an inflationary fever that soared to double digits, the free-enterprise system faced a doubtful, some said downright perilous, future...