Word: downrightness
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...really my style to play angry, but when it comes to Yale I have no trouble getting downright vicious," Casto said recently. "I consider the Yale game a season in itself and a victory this year in the Bowl would erase our losing record, leaving me with one sweet victory by which to remember my Harvard football career...
...labor settlement will help Chrysler to get federal aid. The Carter Administration has insisted that as a precondition for help Chrysler must win concessions from its bankers, dealers, supliers, executives and workers. Everyone las been reluctant to be the first to act, and some have been downright ornery. Only three weeks ago, nearly one-third of Chrysler's 180 bankers voted against renegotiating its credit lines, arguing that even a federal bailout might not save ;he company. Now that the U.A.W. has Broken the logjam, and with the presidential primaries approaching, support for Chrysler is gaining momentum...
Although Harvard has suffered embarrassing, if not downright humiliating losses to three league teams (Cornell, Penn and Columbia), they all occurred in the first half of the season and on rugged courses, long on treacherous footing and short on the speedy stretches that many of Harvard's track specialists prefer...
...sparse plot, downright anemic; yet O'Morrison fleshes it out with the wondrous detail of bygone commonplaces. In this household, light comes from kerosene, refrigeration from an iceman, fruits and vegetables are preserved and the tele phone and vacuum cleaner are wild rumors. It is a simpler world but not a qui eter one. The women fuss and explode over trifles, then sing together in tranquilizing harmony...
...sure, has always shown a lively interest in World War II, but in the past few years the American appetite for war lore has begun to seem downright voracious-and is being fed as though it might be insatiable. Bantam Books, for instance, has put out 31 nonfiction books about the war in the past 18 months, 15 of them at a single pop last March, and all as part of an ambitious plan to put both new and old accounts of the war on the racks continually and indefinitely. Reflecting the same market mood, subscriptions to TIME-LIFE Books...