Word: downrightness
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...shouts and applauds like fury. Well, last night they had something to shout about. Yeomen of the Guard would be a delight on a rainy night in a plague year before an audience of psychopathic dope fiends. Under the conditions that prevail at Agassiz, it is an absolute, downright, unimpeachable, irreproachable, rip-roaring riot...
...prognostications, fulfilled or unfulfilled, with the strangled insincerity of a man who likes to say "say it ain't so," so he says it ain't. The thought of this compulsive lop-shifter of ideas and neologisms frothing his prophylactic at the dreaming West is downright rummy...
...time of war. Buzzing gadflies in this calm atmosphere, the Cowles papers go far beyond filling their front pages with stories on international affairs from their hardworking five-man Washington bureau headed by Dick Wilson, 53. Their editorial pages take positions that are unusual for the Midwest and downright surprising for Republican publishers: they have damned the policies of Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, praised Dean Acheson, bemoaned Chiang Kai-shek (a "lonely, repudiated man"), and called for the recognition of Communist China by both...
...paragraph "Furious at his setbacks," etc. ... is a tissue of distorted facts and even, I am sorry to say, of downright lies. I was not furious at any setbacks; I was invited by General de Gaulle to have a cup of coffee with him, and we quietly and confidently discussed the political situation. Neither did I "demand" bluntly or otherwise permission to form a right-wing coalition, nor did the general have to "icily refuse." All this interview, as narrated by TIME, is to what really happened what a fairy tale is to reality...
...perfect pill, seems to involve cooperative communities, birth control and freedom. Sound as some of this may be, the depraved old world is unlikely to heed. And the thought of aging (64) Aldous-an intellectual well past average breeding age-proffering a prophylactic to the teeming East is downright funny. Reactionaries will continue to listen to Singing Theologicals and hope against Stopes...