Word: downrightness
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...stage. The young officials of YAF had the appearance, as George Sokolsky put it, of "trustees of an institution." Their lengthy speeches ranged from conventionstyle rhetoric ("it is a significant historical movement -- the wave of the future -- leading to the rise of a responsible alternative to apathy"), to downright poor taste ("We will be done with the beatniks, the puerile purveyors of pornography, the limp-wristed bent-kneed writers. . .") niks, the puerile purveyors of porno-provided by the grown-ups. George Sokolsky, a syndicated columnist who began his journalistic career as editor of a Petrograd newspaper during the Revolution received...
...such as a bill to televise any House committee session). Thus far, the committee majority of eight pro-Rayburn Democrats has closed ranks, refused to let the bills reach the floor. But this puts the Rayburnites in the awkward position of blocking legislation, something they held to be downright dangerous when Smith controlled the committee...
...cupboard and hauls out a chocolate cake. It's a matter of boredom, and the subconscious feeling that she is entitled to something, because she's being deprived of something else." For the army of compulsive eaters-from the nibblers and the gobblers to the downright gluttons-reducing is a war with the will that is rarely won. Physiologist Keys flatly dismisses such appetite depressants as the amphetamines (Benzedrine, Dexedrine) as dangerous "crutches for a weak will." Keys has no such objections to Metrecal, Quaker Oats's Quota and other 900-calorie milk formulas that are currently...
...Russia slightly ajar to tourists three years ago, they were amazed at the flood of tourists that flocked in to see for themselves (150,000 last year). But they were shocked to discover that their Western visitors considered their best hotels none too good, and their second-best downright deplorable. The rooms were stuffy, the beds hard, the service sluggish, and there were no stoppers for the bathtubs, grumbled the European and U.S. visitors...
...gathering did indeed seem downright suspicious. And if only the captured guests had been willing to tell the real purpose of their conclave, the policemen's lot would have been a happy one. As it was, many said that they had merely gone to visit the ailing Barbara, who has since died of heart trouble. Two said their car had broken down near by. Another swore that he had come to sell Barbara some fish. Barbara himself said that all the guests had been more or less unexpected -and he just happened to have about 200 pounds of steak...