Word: downrightness
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...evolved a whole new science program for the Potomac School, which is now a regular part of the curriculum. The principal of Delaware's Bridgeville Consolidated School reported that his visiting Scot was "so delightful" that even his kilt was accepted "without gibes from the males and with downright enthusiasm by the females." In Gig Harbor, Wash, a high-school student won an award in the Betty Crocker "American Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest, took her British home-economics teacher along on the winning trip to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg and Philadelphia. "It was," said the Briton later, "one of those...
...were quickly reached with most of the publishers, particularly when it appeared that the record was becoming a hit; being quoted on The Flying Saucer actually improved sales of rock-'n'-roll tunes. By now, record companies whose disks are not represented on The Flying Saucer are downright hurt. "It's the greatest sampler of all," wailed one publisher. "If you're not on Saucer, you're nowhere...
...Yeller wasn't much to look at: big, ungainly and downright ugly, with his mangy yellow coat and sneak-thief ways. But in Texas of the 1860s, with father away on a cattle drive to Kansas and mother and small brother to look after, Travis figured that any cur around the farm was better than none. Old Yeller had just drifted in from nowhere, helped himself to a nice side of meat and decided that he had found a home. As it turned out, Old Yeller did great things for the isolated little family. He ran down rabbits...
...Design, compounded their insult by rating M.I.T.'s impressively daring Kresge Auditorium, adjacent to the Chapel and also by Saarinen, at the bottom of the list and emphasizing in their decision that "we wish it understood ... that the award is for the chapel building alone." They should be downright ashamed of themselves...
...with plays as with people, heredity is not necessarily a hindrance. Ring Round the Moon being of good lineage, and its creators being downright Confucian about respecting the work of their ancestors, last week's offering turned out to be thoroughly delightful...