Word: downrightness
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...other big cats, primarily lions and cougars. People own big cats for all sorts of reasons. Machismo is one: a tiger makes the nastiest Doberman seem like a yipping Chihuahua. Some people believe owning a tiger helps preserve an endangered species. And a tiger cub, at least, is downright adorable--until it grows...
...explain that my soul has roots in the poetry that’s created here. But I keep my mouth shut, having concluded that behavior considered normal amongst devotees of Phil Fisher’s English 165: “Joyce, Modernism and Aestheticism” class is considered downright loony by everyone else...
Young PRINCE HARRY'S Down Under welcome has been downright prickly. The rakish royal, 19, landed in Sydney on his way to a three-month stint as a jackeroo--a ranch hand who wrangles sheep and cattle in the Australian outback--during his gap year between high school and college. Stopping at the Taronga Park Zoo for a photo op with local wildlife, Harry struggled to get a safe grip on this echidna. Also bristling were some Australian politicians, who complained about the $400,000 it costs to guard his highness. Of course the boost in tourism dollars from schoolgirls...
...Saudi Arabia has long advocated and indeed promoted the most extreme form of Islamic practices. And for the house of Saud to fein shock and disbelief that their own citizens were part of the Sept. 11 attack on this country is downright shameless on their part. Not only should we not maintain any alliance with this country but we should regard Saudi Arabia as a clear and present danger and should treat it as we would any other country we deem our enemy. Stella Wilson Houston, Texas...
Nearly two years after the horror of 9/11, many found it downright bracing to pull together in an emergency that was just an accident. If 9/11 taught us how to survive while grieving, the blackout taught us how to survive without grumbling--or without too much of it at least. Should you find yourself in a blackout--or want to be prepared for crises that might leave you stranded without services--here are 10 rules for getting by when lights go out, stores shut down, and banks are closed...