Word: downrightness
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...deplorable disrepair. Priests said that some 85% of all Honduran children are born out of wedlock. Three illegitimate children per father is "the rule," but ten is "not unusual." Dismayed when one group of children met with blank faces his question, "How many Gods are there?", he was downright horrified when the local schoolteacher coached in a stage whisper: "Five...
...purpose: to appraise the performance of the Columbus daily press, including their own Citizen, A recent example of their work in the C.I.O. News: "The Citizen has more and more sugar-coated its stories, has spent more and more time on the goody-goody type stories ... It gets downright sickening...
...over the agricultural pronouncements. Premier Chou En-lai hinted to the National People's Congress that "output for any particular year may be lower than in the previous year." Meanwhile, the kept press began to erupt with nasty comments about local functionaries who had been "overzealous" and even downright dishonest in their estimates of what their farms were yielding. Kwangtung province, for instance, had produced not 34 million tons of grain, as claimed, but only 30. There had been, said the People's Daily, "little, if any, increase'' in output over 1958 because of "impractical, inefficient...
...taxes. Last week his heirs, faced with some $30 million in death duties (of which more than $21 million has already been paid to date), put up for auction 18 of the duke's paintings, plus the Westminster Tiara, so encrusted with diamonds that his peers considered it downright vulgar...
...move from city to suburb, the problem of getting to and from work is at best a fretful one. But nowhere is it more irritating than in New York City, into which about 370,000 commuters pour each weekday by train, bus and car. And nowhere is it more downright infuriating than on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, serving the nation's wealthiest commuter area, only a few years ago one of the best of all commuter lines-and now one of the very worst...