Word: downrightness
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There's nothing peculiar about buying the booklet either, even if you consider yourself too "pure" to memorize monster sequences and con tips like "Play the corners individually for maximum point potential and downright fun." "For just $2.25 the editors of Consumer Guide can give you invaluable insights on the game's larger implications. Just turn to the "Testimonials" section on the last page where Jim, age 26, high score 115,400, advises...
Congress agreed, and appropriated $2.4 million for an undertaking that the curators had always regarded as impossible, if not downright laughable. The nation's attic was as badly organized as the average homeowner's; junk and jewels had been piling up helter-skelter since 1846, when Congress founded the Smithsonian with a $500,000 bequest from James Smithson, an Englishman who left his estate to establish a national museum...
...world of the jobless that has become most familiar to the public: the struggle to pay the rent and keep food on the table, the suspenseful search for new work. The intangible atmosphere of the jobless world is less familiar only because it is ordinarily more private, often downright obscure. The most obvious personal wounds of joblessness are often easy to spot, as in the language of Ronald Poindexter, 34, a Washington bricklayer out of work for six months: "I feel sick." But the profound wrench of unemployment is not often disclosed as plainly as in the reflection of Connie...
These days, watching the Harvard women's basketball team is not an uplifting experience. In fact, it's becoming downright depressing...
...spent, and he would lower the burden of all taxpayers at the same time. Thus it came as quite a jolt to the President last week when some of the beneficiaries of this new freedom protested loudly that the President's plan was hastily conceived, harshly implemented and downright unworkable. The chorus of protests rose at a Detroit conference of the National League of Cities, an assembly of 2,500 local officials, many from the medium-sized communities where grass-roots support for Reagan policies is supposed to run high...