Word: downrightness
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...center-to-liberal Democratic candidates who have held elective office--Carter, Harris, Bayh and Udall--are relatively progressive politicians elected from bedrock conservative constituencies. They are tenacious politicians to have survived such milieus, and it is very possible that each has more than his share of compromise, craftiness and downright dirt lurking in his political past...
...most malpractice suits against lawyers have resulted from downright negligence or technical foulups: administrative and clerical errors, deeds filed improperly, and even failure to file a suit on time. Recently, a former patient at Prince George's General...
While it is inevitable that the secrecy, the downright deceit and the huge buildup from small beginnings in Viet Nam are bitterly remembered, the comparison between Angola and Viet Nam is alarmist and simplistic. For one thing, or so the Administration argues, the levels of aid differ enormously. In 1954, the year the French pulled out of Indochina, for example, the Eisenhower Administration asked Congress for $500 million to aid the region's anti-Communist fighting forces. Ford and Kissinger have assured Congress that the U.S. will not send advisers or troops to Angola, and Washington's goal...
Rose Harrison exhibits a minimal interest in her lady's position in political history. In true Upstairs/ Downstairs tone, she is insufferably proud of knowing her place and downright snobbish about her ignorance. "Before we went to Italy," Rose recalls vaguely, "her ladyship spoke to me and told me not to mention the name Mussolini. I suppose he must have come to power not too long before that time...
...your interviews, you are sometimes downright insulting. Why do they sit still...