Word: downrightness
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...year to find and refine the modern statistics that measure where U.S. business stands and is likely to move next, and industry and private economic groups spend millions more. But the U.S. economy has changed so quickly in recent years that many statistical standbys have become insensitive, inaccurate or downright misleading...
During the many months that he really needed their votes for the civil rights bill, President Johnson was downright deferential to Capitol Hill Republicans. But now that the measure has passed the Senate and seems certain of quick approval in the House, Johnson obviously figures that he no longer needs to be so nice. Last week he started pressuring the House to stay in session six days a week, at least through July 10, to act on a big pileup of legislation, in particular his anti-poverty bill...
...frequently sophomoric social satire is what's wrong with Flicker's cinematic prank. What's right with it is its irrepressible urge to let the plot go hang and take up more amusing matters, some of them crude, some of them nude, a few of them downright sidesplitting...
...less than two hours after the polls closed, Bronx Democratic Boss Charles Buckley, 73, walked scowling from a back door of the decrepit office building that houses his headquarters. Two reporters met him with questions. "Get the hell outa the way," snarled a Buckley henchman. Those words were downright kindly compared with Buckley's own profanity. After 30 years as Congressman from New York's 23rd District, during which he rose to the chairmanship of the pork-barreling House Public Works Committee, Buck ley had just been beaten in his party's primary by a political dude...
...contender, kept the other tenants awake into the small hours slaving at the keyboard a minimum of twelve hours a day, the well-prepared Russian trio held their practice sessions to four hours at the most, then blithely played soccer and lounged on the sloping lawns. It was downright disconcerting. "To us Americans, that week was like jail," groaned Michael Ponti, 26. "To them it was a paradise...