Word: downrightness
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...didn't do it; and even if we did it, it didn't amount to much; and even if it amounted to a lot, Canada showed bad manners in talking about it; come to think about it, it was a downright, premeditated attack on us. So ran the gist of the official Russian reply to the Canadian disclosure that some Canadians had supplied atomic-bomb secrets to the Russian military attaché's office...
There is a category of news which can be called significant trivia. It is not world shaking. It can be amusing, sad, tragic, inspiring, or downright funny, but it is revealing. It is generally about people. Sometimes it makes headlines, but more often it is buried in the back pages of a local newspaper. TIME likes to report incidents like these because they illuminate-sometimes more brightly than a major news story-the kind of world we live in and the kind of people who make the world what it is. Some examples from TIME...
Combined Fire Power. Those who insist on comparisons give 205-lb. Fullback Blanchard a sharp edge over Stanford's great Norman Standlee. Doc explodes with more muzzle velocity, hits the line with more downright destructiveness. With one more year of Army football to play, Blanchard may seriously challenge Minnesota's mighty Bronko Nagurski as the all-time exponent of straight-ahead brute force...
...Shall Do My Best." Yeasty social changes are also fermenting. Plebes have a new, downright and often cynical attitude towards the Academy old-school tie. They are older than prewar plebes, many more of them have come from colleges, many are enlisted men who have been with the fleet and wear campaign ribbons on their jumpers. In this year's plebe class is 18-year-old Negro Wesley Anthony Brown, who wrote grimly to Harlem's Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell: "I shall do my best to successfully complete the prescribed course. . . . In 100 years of service...
...depressing aftermath of war, other stones like this were coming out of Germany, Belgium, France and The Netherlands. They ranged from instances of mere tactlessness to stories of downright outlawry. Occasionally Europeans have retaliated. In Louvain, recently, a U.S. soldier was stabbed to death...