Word: downrightness
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STATE OF MIND: Searching, inquisitive, digging, critical, sometimes downright nosy, often troubled, occasionally angry, but more often amused or philosophical. Never satisfied...
...there are many others who have held on through most of those years. After we mentioned our anniversary in the February 22 issue, old and new subscribers began writing in to wish us happy birthday. Some have been sentimental, some tart and a few downright caustic. From Lincoln, Neb., Carl H. Steelquist wrote that he had gotten out his copy of Vol. I No. 1. with House Speaker Joe Cannon on the cover, and sat down to tell us "I have enjoyed TIME these 40 years and wish continued success for you." Then Albert Mallen of New York City whacked...
Life as a Little Doll. From then on, Tormé patrolled the fringes of popularity, and from time to time slipped into downright obscurity. On the few occasions when he had to sing from center stage, he invariably fell victim to some quirk of personality that cost him friends, fans and jobs. His life, as even he tells it, began to sound like a punk's diary. "I didn't know the word for it then," he says, "but I can see now that I was defensive. I had a chip on my shoulder." To unload it, Torme...
...European automakers the statistics were downright chilling. Though 1962 was a year of booming auto sales in the U.S., imported cars failed to share in the fun. Their U.S. sales fell from 379,000 in 1961 to an estimated 330,000 last year. Their share of the U.S. auto market was a bare 5%, less than half what...
...Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, while he is absorbed in the task of preparing the Packers for their next game, ''we don't talk," she says. On Thursday, when practice tapers off, "we say hello." On Friday "he is civil"; on Saturday "he is downright pleasant." And then on Sunday, says Marie, "Vince feels the game is in the boys' hands. He has done all he can. Sometimes you have to poke him to keep him awake in the car, driving to the game...