Word: downrightness
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...those fears have faded. As the weather in much of the nation turned milder in February, then downright summery in March and April, demand for natural gas fell. The Emergency Natural Gas Act passed by Congress last February helped too. It enabled gas-consuming states to buy-at high unregulated prices-supplies that had been held in such producing states as Texas and Louisiana. Supplies in storage have now been rebuilt to the point that factories burning natural gas can count on getting enough to keep them running through the summer and fall. Since supplies are being replenished faster than...
...Rica, Venezuela and Colombia) and three military dictatorships (Brazil, Peru and Ecuador) but skips such "southern cone" countries as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, all run by rightist juntas. Whatever importance different regimes attach to her visit, she seems assured of a cordial welcome wherever she goes and a downright affectionate one in some places. A representative of Peru's leftist regime, evidently viewing her more as a tourist than a diplomat, promised her "una gran bienvenida [a great welcome]. She will see the best that we can offer, all of the great sights, and we speak from the heart...
...major problem in dealing with the Soviets is their xenophobia. Though they have grown considerably more sophisticated about the outside world in recent years, they still show a distrust of foreigners that borders on paranoia and a defensiveness that can make them downright offensive. In one of his David Frost interviews, for example, Richard Nixon recalled a conversation President Eisenhower once had with Nikita Khrushchev. Eisenhower lamented that he could never seem to get away from the intrusions of the telephone. Khrushchev responded-irrelevantly and incorrectly-with a tirade about how the Soviets have far more telephones than the Americans...
Schippani, terming the pension system "downright inhumane," said a man who worked 27 years for the company is only eligible for a pension of $10 a month. "It is absolutely absurd," he said...
...floundering too often in trying situations, the young team has looked very good against Brown and B.C. and even in the close loss to Penn, but has looked downright terrible on other occasions, especially in the half-hearted effort against Yale...