Word: downrightness
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...ugly mood. De Gaulle closed the Foreign Legion's recruiting office in Paris, and the end was apparently in sight for the storied corps that for 130 years had fought France's worst battles, from the Crimea to Dienbienphu. Today's legionnaire is a downright gentleman compared with his counterpart of the old days, who greased his feet, wore no socks, lived on bread, cheese and a quart of red wine. But none ever better earned the nickname "the Legion of Death" than the present (mostly German and Hungarian) legionnaires, who took 10,000 casualties in Indo...
...make them. But people who have seen the film before-and some people say they have seen it more than 60 times-may have a more serious complaint: Why has the print been darkened? Every color has been tainted with sepia, and in some scenes the effect is downright morbid. Is this somebody's idea of what DeMille once described as "Rembrandt lighting?" Hardly. The Technicolor elements have aged; their chemical colors have "wandered," as the experts...
...While much of Brandt's talk is unfit for print, it alone bears repeating. The slashing Mencken tone is nostalgically familiar in such comments as: "All the Spaniards have contributed to the world is hemophilia"; ''Thoreau was a Gandhi in a second-hand suit"; "It is downright unfair to take money from the rich to try to educate the poor, who don't want any education, are puzzled by it, and once they get it, such as they can absorb, use it only to read confession and detective magazines. So I say, teach the boobs nothing...
Some of them got to be downright abusative...
...journeyed to Washington last week as a concession to the Kennedy Administration's busy schedule. Canada's thoughtful gesture, as it turned out, was just right. The visitors found President Kennedy and his New Frontiersmen eager to demonstrate that if Republicans could be receptive, Democrats could be downright friendly...