Word: downrightness
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...quarter hour; two minutes, 30 seconds out of every nighttime quarter hour. The extra 45 seconds in daytime may account for much of soap opera's sales pull; also for much suffocating boredom. The merciless unction of long, repetitive commercials struck both U.S. listeners and U.S. advertisers as downright incongruous in the days just after Pearl Harbor. The advertisers' reaction apparently wore off, but a certain public feeling remained, especially about commercials that try to capitalize on the war effort...
When a squadron of Free French corvettes sailed into the harbor of St. Pierre on Christmas Eve and took possession of the islands in the name of General Charles de Gaulle (TIME, Jan. 5), Cordell Hull was downright mad. He feared this Free French coup might undo all his work...
Even priests who then agreed with the Archbishop's outright attitude did not necessarily approve of the Archbishop's downright expression of that attitude. Practically all U.S. citizens-Catholic and non-Catholic alike-had long felt a twinging distaste for Joseph Stalin the Communist, a twinging admiration for Joseph Stalin the Soldier. After war came to the U.S., all U.S. citizens, including Catholic priests and bishops, had to revalue their feelings about Communist Joe Stalin, who might prove extraordinarily useful in helping the U.S. to pay off the Japanese lor their attack...
After six years of slumber Canada's opposition party turned over in its sleep last week and threatened to wake up and scrap. The Conservatives chose a new Party leader, a downright man with a low opinion of Canada's war policies. He will have the opportunity of pushing William Lyon Mackenzie King off the narrowing plank on which the Liberal Prime Minister has been teetering since war began...
...first we told her about it in a diplomatic way. Then we became downright frank. Result-if anything-her dresses are shorter and she bends with more frequency than ever. So now we've given up. We are petitioning you now to write an article on the subject...