Word: downrightness
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Below decks, the situation was hideous. Buttoned up for battle, the LSMR became as breathless as a steam room. Temperatures often hit 140°, posing a serious hazard of debilitation among the crew and a downright perilous situation in the magazines. Sailors slept face to foot in cramped, fetid racks of three, and life was a reasonable approximation of a Roman galley. But all that has changed. Last week, on the fir-fringed shore of Puget Sound, the Navy proudly unveiled the IFS- I (Inshore Fire Support Ship), a ship that combines all the striking power of its ancestor...
...evening could give it a short squeal before the afternoon exams. This might have the additional advantage of frightening away the yearly surplus of panicked law students who invade Lamont. The librarians do nothing about the crowd except count it, and, wisely enough,say that it would be downright impolite to yank away chairs used for foot rests. But why they don't open up the extra space in the conference rooms is unknown, although the University may be hiding General MacArthur's honorary degree there...
...Matsus and Quemoy, and to urge that he get his troops off those islands. They had no such orders and no such intentions. But since Formosa did not know why they were coming, or even how long they planned to stay, the worldwide speculation bred bafflement, anxiety and downright hostility in the Nationalist camp...
Novocain, drills, and fillings being what they are, the Dental Clinic is never a very pleasant place to spend one's time. For the student who is driven there by a toothache or some other dental crisis, however, the Clinic can become downright infuriating. For no matter how painful his ailment, he is usually told to come back in two or three weeks when the doctors will be able to give him an appointment...
Among wriggling dormitories and three-cornered orange peels on the MIT campus, an awesome cylinder of bricks is being raised heavenward. That this unique type of structure be erected as a place of worship is more than ironically sagacious: it is downright shrewd. For, especially here on the MIT campus, form must follow function, in this case, to inspire divine thoughts in the pragmatic-and-recently sobered heads of MIT scientific supermen. the problem of directing brains from the mechanisms of Ac-DC current, the path of least resistance, to thoughts of the spirit, the divine essence and meaning...