Word: downrightness
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...Scali had a chance to reply to the Arab charges, a squabble broke out between the Russian and Chinese ambassadors. Yakov Malik insisted that any resolution on the Middle East make reference to the nonuse of force in international relations. Chinese Ambassador Huang Hua denounced the Soviet proposal as "downright fraud," since "along the northern frontier of China it [the Soviet Union] has stationed a million troops to threaten China." Could this, asked Huang, "be called nonuse of force in international relations...
STATE AND LOCAL legislators occasionally like to take pot shots at Harvard and its tax free status. Over the years the University's relationship with the Cambridge City Council has been lukewarm at best, and often downright cold. State lawmakers from the western part of Massachusetts resent Harvard's big-time stature, and welcome any opportunity to test the University's influence...
...14th issue of the Crimson on Florynce Kennedy (spelled with a y) has a very restricted and slanted view of her talk and can only be called disrespectful. The article lived up to Ms. Kennedy's criticism of The Crimson as it was unimaginative, uninformative and downright bad reporting. The author stuck quotations from her speech together which did not belong together forcing an irrational tone on the talk, and he further completely failed to comment on the very important political and psychological points she made in her own very exciting way. The reporter obviously has an anal preoccupation...
...hackneyed phrases and conditioned attitudes of the Madison Avenue mentality he scorns. This is hardly getting down to the roots of self-honesty. When a sentimental and moralizing tone begins to rear its nasty little head near the end, the message, which is fairly muddled anyway, becomes downright offensive...
Granted, Harvard did put down the Judge challenge, winning the match 19-8, but between the failures of the electrical judging equipment, the lateness of the director, and the downright tedium of watching good fencers fence inept ones, while looking inept in the process themselves, it was an evening better spent at home reading up for the new term...