Word: downrightness
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...First I read TIME'S article on Cuba [Sept. 14]. Then came the evening paper headlining the Soviet Union's latest threat, and I have never in my life been so downright mad. Because of our President's indecision and hesitation, the thorn in our side has become a boil...
...found disturbing violations among many of the nonskeds: some mechanics were writing maintenance reports to show repairs and checkups that were never done; pilots were flying more than the legal eight hours at a stretch; flight crew training standards were minimal. In addition, non-sked business practices were sometimes downright dubious. President Airlines, which operated a DC-6B that crashed last year off Shannon, killing 83 passengers, got into the business by buying the air carrier certificate of a dormant nonsked...
Landis. To many of the New Deal's enemies. Professor Frankfurter seemed downright sinister. His outspoken interventions on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti and other unpopular defendants in the 19205 had led Chief Justice William Howard Taft to remark that he "seems to be closely in touch with every Bolshevist, Communist movement in this country." As late as 1945, a Southern Congressman told the House that "practically every department is now infested with those who see eye to eye with Frankfurter-the Rasputin of this Administration." ∙ But fears that Frankfurter would be a flaming radical on the bench...
...building's bachelors now enter and leave through the basement. Said one unmarried woman resident: "If you come home late from a date and the boy wants to kiss you good night in the lobby, you can almost feel all the eyes watching you. It's downright embarrassing." A high point of "lobby observing" (as it is known to the trade) comes when an unwary caller, thinking himself alone, begins to preen and scratch while waiting for the answering buzzer. One tenant regularly warns his caller over the intercom: "Smile, you're on Candid Camera...
...public stand on the issues of the day, because he does not force his personal convictions into his papers, because he has no interest more consuming than the solvency of his properties?and because he automatically becomes an "outsider" wherever he buys?he is frequently treated with suspicion and downright hostility. Upon learning that the New Orleans