Word: downrightness
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...reversed himself and spun to his right-and Cowboy Reynolds hit the dirt with a thump. "I looked up," recalls Reynolds, "and one of the clowns was snapping a lead rope on him. Another clown got on his back, and they led him out of the arena. It was downright degrading. But it was sort of comical...
...Americans to ponder. Standing before the two-level building, which eventually will hold 20 million documents from his two terms in the White House, Ike wondered aloud: "What has happened to our concept of beauty and decency and morality?" Books and movies are laced with "vulgarity, sensuality, indeed downright filth." People dance "the twist instead of the minuet." Modern paintings look as if they have been "run over by a broken-down tin lizzie loaded with paint.'' He did not think the U.S. would go for it for long. "I per sonally believe," said Ike, "that...
Flying down to Washington, Blough ar rived right on time. Ordinarily a somber sort, he appeared downright jolly as he entered the White House. Awaiting him, puzzled and just a bit apprehensive, was President Kennedy. For months, Kennedy had been cultivating Blough, allowing him back-door entry to the White House. He had reason to think that his attention to Blough had paid off: less than two weeks before, U.S. Steel had reached a contract agreement with the United Steelworkers that Kennedy hailed as "non-inflationary" and as an example of "industrial statesmanship." So what did Blough want...
...many Americans-both Democratic and Republican-foreign aid is a painful necessity at best, a downright giveaway at worst. This feeling has encouraged Congress to make a tradition of wielding an ax at presidential foreign aid requests. Last week, President Kennedy asked Congress to appropriate $4.9 billion for foreign aid in fiscal 1963, the biggest aid request since Dwight Eisenhower's $5.1 billion whopper in 1953. Noting that it is "always open season" on foreign aid, Kennedy insisted that the sum was "vital to the interests of the U.S." and "cannot, I believe, be further reduced." But after such...
Finally, the signers called upon the House of Representatives to abolish the HUAC "because no one else will." It noted that privately many Congressmen have said HUAC is "unnecessary, harmful, and, at times, downright silly" but that "publicly, only a handful have opposed the Committee...