Word: downrightness
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...sometimes hard to tell whether the rancor aroused by Johnson stemmed from his policies or his personality. An immensely complex, contradictory and occasionally downright unpleasant man, he has never managed to attract the insulating layer of loyalty that a Roosevelt or a Truman, however beleaguered, could fall back on. Consequently, when things began to go wrong, he had few defenders and all too many critics...
...doing all this?" In an apparent satire on Nazi war criminals, he answered: "I don't know. I'm just following orders." Funny? The 94 persons who wrote or called up the network- an unusual reaction for a commercial spot-did not think so. They found it downright offensive...
Flies & Vermin. The meat-packing industry has changed from downright opposition to any federal intervention in intrastate business to outright embracing of the Montoya bill. For as the subcommittee hearings continue, meat packers and grocers alike are hurting from the publicity generated by mounting evidence of irregular and insufficient intrastate meat-inspecting practices. Graphic descriptions were presented to the subcommittee from a 1962 Agriculture Department report of non-federally controlled meat-packing houses alive with flies and vermin. The subcommittee was also told that in 1966 federal inspectors forced producers to discard 250 million pounds of unwholesome meat...
...certainly right for a party, and the trappings were all that anyone would wish: the sweep of Red Square, an entertainment cast of thousands, the backdrop of the Kremlin and, later, the elegant Palace of Congresses as a banquet hall for 2,000 guests. But the hosts seemed downright edgy, as if expecting one of the guests to swing from a chandelier or pour champagne on someone's head. Indeed, some of the partygoers at last week's celebration of the Soviet Union's 50th anniversary figuratively jangled a few chandeliers and threw a goodly amount...
...Public Broadcasting Act, while satisfactory in most respects, is ambiguous in others. A restrictive House amendment requires that public-TV programming be "objective and balanced." That catch phrase is scarcely helpful; taken to an extreme, it could be downright silly, Says Hartford Gunn, manager of Boston's WGBH, the nation's outstanding public-TV channel: "If we have a program saying pollution is bad, does this mean we have to do a program saying pollution is good...