Word: downrightness
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...size of his job bother him. He likes to turn to his pretty blonde wife and drawl: "Angel, can you remember when I've ever been kept awake by worrying?" Angel always shakes her head. Says Tex Colbert: "Business doesn't worry me. It's a downright pleasure...
Colbert was downright joyful. He gave a party for 450 newsmen and showed them his new 1951 models-Chryslers, Dodges, Plymouths, De Sotos; sedans, convertibles, hardtops and station wagons...
...investigators feared that some sex perverts would inevitably go undetected in Government jobs, but most federal bureaus and agencies, they concluded sharply, had been lazy or downright negligent about cleaning house. The Senators recommended tighter laws and harsher punishment for sex perversion in the District of Columbia, more intensive examination of job applicants...
...from being the perfect weapon. Some doctors think that it can be downright dangerous; even its most ardent partisans admit that it will not do a complete immunization job in every case. It can be used only on patients showing no active sign of the disease. An added difficulty is the fact that no one can be certain just how effective BCG is until it is made the only preventive agent in a long-term experiment on a large mass of people...
...stage tale, finally enacted, is no worse, but no better, than blancmange. Composer Britten has turned out a pleasant score, full of tricky tunes and comic-opera ensembles. But the relentless whimsicality makes A. A. Milne seem downright dour; and the hippety-hoppeting would cause growls and mutters in any mildly progressive fourth grade...