Word: downrightness
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Back home, on the chilly banks of the Neva in Leningrad, plenty of bodies were uncovered as swarms of pale, fleshy Russians looked for a place in the thin spring sun, the very image of a people who want the better, freer-and more stylish-life Khrushchev promises. Sounding downright capitalistic, Izvestia launched a new plan to bring about this longed-for prosperity; it suggested putting a traditional Russian drink known as kvas on the world mar ket to compete with Coca-Cola...
Prosperous West Germany seems to be on its way to overtaking the U.S. as the world's leading exporter, but the prospect does not make Chancellor Ludwig Erhard very happy. In fact, he was downright grim when his economics ministry reported to him that Bonn's trade surplus for 1964's first two months was running at a staggering annual rate of $2.4 billion. Erhard sees the pile-up of export-earned foreign exchange as another spur to inflation, which is already getting a push from a huge in flux of foreign capital ($725 million...
...almost any spy story there comes a moment when a reader with his eyes open is forced to say to himself "this whole plot is downright ridiculous." No matter how skillful the author, unless he is that rare Graham Greene with the ability to tell stories about spies instead of spy stories, he inevitably introduces the jarring, discordant note which drives the whole plot beyond the limits of believability...
...thought she only had to say a few properly persuasive words to Chou and China would hasten to patch up its quarrel with India. Blithely, the Ceylonese press reported that Mrs. Bandaranaike had persuaded Chou to fly right to India for peace talks. But Chou was inscrutable, and India downright hostile to the idea. Mrs. Bandaranaike was only momentarily deterred. "As for the dispute between Peking and Moscow," she said, "I am afraid it is beyond...
...played to a Stockholm audience that applauded some of his compositions on the first few bars, as if he were Frank Sinatra singing Night and Day, and Swedish television broadcast the whole concert live. Such European enthusiasm for a breed of cat many Americans still consider weird, if not downright wicked, may seem something of a puzzle. But to jazzmen touring Europe, it is one more proof that the limits of the art at home are more sociological than esthetic...