Word: downrightness
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This, incidentally, was opening day, though one couldn't tell it. No crowds or bands were on hand as the teams played for three hours in weather that was at first chilly and then downright cold. The crowd was sparse, perhaps 60 or so, but the team at least was enthusiastic and hustled all the way, and can look forward hopefully to Saturday's encounter with Boston University here. Dom Repetto will probably pitch...
...Doctors rely heavily on the results of laboratory tests for both diagnosis and prescription, but 2,500 members of the American Academy of General Practice were warned in St. Louis last week that far too many of the test findings are not accurate, and some are downright wrong. Such test results, said Pathologist Louis S. Smith of Dallas, "can be responsible for a major number of prolongations of illness and some deaths." His suggested remedy: require more formal training for technicians, then pay them better (only 8½% now make $80 a week...
Even the mediocre and the downright bad is worth reading, if it can be used with the faculties awake. Ethan Fromm has smashed, dulled, and lulled hundreds of thousands of schoolboy sensibilities for forty years. But for Trilling the book in all its badness, still has something to say about life, for it is the very badness, the lack of sensibility, what he calls "the morality of inertia" which characterizes not only that period, but the majority of people in every period...
...autos swooshed onto the market, with all of their fins, fantails and flanges, they have been the object of an extraordinary amount of comment. Some of it has been admiring, some has been funny, and some-from motorists who want more fish and less fin -has been downright bitter. Last week in the New Republic (circ. 29,453), Cartoonist Robert Osborn had his say (see cuts) with sharp effect...
Many juvenile crimes, especially in the advanced teens, are motivated by downright meanness. Around the ages of sixteen and seventeen some of the boys become so tough and anti-social that their acts become increasingly brutal. A good example occurred a few years ago when one local tough stood on a street corner flipping a coin in the air for fifteen minutes. He then let it drop to the sidewalk. Another boy standing nearby bent over to pick it up for him, and promptly received a kick in the face from the flipper. "That guy was real mean," a local...