Word: downrightness
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...night regulars have never seen anyone buy one of the stuffed Pink Panthers that line the windows and the tops of shelf displays, though Higgins maintains he sells four or five a day and at least one $42 biggie a week. Greeting cards with odd motifs, off-color and downright obscene novelty buttons, shirts that say "Harvard University: A Tradition of Men in Exciting Positions," electric hot-pots, and toothbrushes also sell briskly...
...loss to Penn would also, needless to say, turn the Crimson's slim Ivy title hopes into downright impossibility. As it is, Yale and Dartmouth each has to lose again, and then Harvard has to win--not tie--The Game in order to cop its first crown since 1975. No matter what Dartmouth or Harvard does this week, if Princeton doesn't beat Yale, The Game will not decide the title...
...floor. The count: 52 to 48 in favor of the sale. "Thank God!" exclaimed Reagan. Later, posing for pictures, he answered a photographer's request for "a big smile, Mr. President," by saying: "Tm trying to smile with dignity. I don't want to look jubilant." But he was downright gleeful when he dropped in on applauding aides at a party in the White House basement mess a few minutes later. "I came to applaud you," said Reagan, clapping his own hands. "It was in the fourth quarter, goal to go, and you pushed it over. Doesn't it feel...
...total offense with 1522 yards, many of them to his 6-ft., 4-in. tight end. Jordan, a bona fide All-American candidate, has 26 catches for 483 yards, and an impressive 18.6 average. And with tailback Vince Stephens, who returns this week from an injury, the Bruins look downright imposing when they have the ball...
...from the summer 1980 campaign to the Janet Cooke-Pulitzer Prize scandal. Though divided into unnamed chapters, the book has no obvious thematic thread. Pieces on nuclear war alternate with those on garage sales and cocktail parties. In almost every 750-word spurt, Buchwald manages to get in some downright funny lines, and from time to time an entire installment is clever. For example, no one has challenged Buchwald's claim to the invention of the MX missile-Amtrak gag, which has since become an integral part of Op-Ed page vocabulary throughout the nation. Insisting that "nobody wants...