Word: downrightness
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...York liberal witnessed a particularly distressing spectacle: Javits attacking Holtzman, who shares many of his positions on the issues, as an extremist saddled with all the "doctrinaire naivete of the left." By turning his wrath on the infinitely preferable Holtzman, the aging Senator has chosen a graceless--if not downright irascible--way to end his illustrious 24-year career. Javits' attacks only serve to give credence to D'Amato's charges that Holtzman is a "radical," by which D'Amato means a Communist sympathizer...
...start from. I'm planning to reach 100 with no problem at all." Just the sort of Gray Panther gumption that Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper, 80, chairman of the Select Committee on the Aging, likes to hear from his elders. In fact, most times he can get downright salty over what he calls "agism"-discrimination against the elderly. At the birthday party in his Capitol office, the oldest member of the House of Representatives gazed around the room at the young staff members who had organized the affair. Said he: "I plan to be around for your 80th birthdays...
Some of the new schemes, providing for tax incentives, more autonomy for businesses and the like, sounded downright capitalistic. One of the most surprising revelations was the fact that the government had incurred a deficit last year of $11 billion. It went largely for higher wages, farm subsidies and other benefits to workers. Some $700 million alone was spent to compensate former officials who had been unjustly deprived of their jobs during the Cultural Revolution...
...article on Central America [Aug. 18] whetted my appetite for more information. It seems downright embarrassing for our nation to have shown so little concern for or interest in its own neighbors...
...continues the basic good-guys vs. bad-guys theme of the original film. Darth Vader wants Luke, and he uses Leia, Han, Chewbaca and C-3PO as bait to lure the young hero into his chillingly evil clutches. Like its predecessor, Empire provides some genuinely comic moments and some downright dimwitted dialogue. But unlike the original, the new film contains some truly shocking plot twists...