Word: downrightness
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...Vision Ahead. The U.S. is backing Britain's initiative with unalloyed enthusiasm-and, at times, pushing it with so much vigor that the more discreet British are downright embarrassed. U.S. policymakers, like many in Europe, are still fearful that the Six, dominated by France and Germany, could become a "Little Europe" and then retire behind high tariff walls into a political third-force position...
...emergency materials. This is more than twice as much as the Pentagon believes the U.S. needs for a three-year war. An investigation of stockpiling by a Senate Armed Services subcommittee has indicated that efforts to cut the surplus were blocked by Government agencies, pressure from industry, and downright inefficiency. Last week the subcommittee was told a tale, involving both the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations, of four metals...
...charges that he is only a Democrat in Republican clothing. Rocky is downright indignant. He professes what to him is a basic Republican creed-and challenges anyone to dispute its orthodoxy. "In addition to the fact that I was born a Republican," he says, "I believe in the worth and dignity of the individual -the concept of equal rights. I believe in private initiative and private enterprise: this is the growth factor in a democracy...
...Cliffie has abandoned "those wretched black stockings," is brighter than her Harvard counterpart, and lives in a predominantly masculine environment, about which, Arlen writes, "she tends to be keenly enthusiastic." The Girl With the Harvard Degree can be "downright solemn at times" about such serious matters as "Independence, Privacy, Personal Freedom, Maturity, and Being-Left-Alone...
...consumer has usually got better products for his money-and that his rising wages have given him the added spending power to enjoy them. To such men, the alternative to "normal" inflation-as opposed to the runaway inflation of post World War I Germany-is economic stagnation or downright recession...