Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hycon Manufacturing Co., an electronics concern that has worked on guided missiles.) Others suggested that Gardner was miffed because Defense Secretary Wilson, who recently decided to appoint a "czar" for the whole U.S. guided-missile program, had passed him over for the job. Gardner himself offered the straightforward explanation that he was leaving because of "an honest difference of opinion about the level of support for the Air Force research and development program...
...write anything less realistic, less straightforward than 'the cat sat on the mat,'" A. A. Milne (rhymes with kiln) once complained, "I am [called] whimsical." To Alan Alexander Milne, whimsical was the most "loathsome adjective," but it was one that he could never escape. No matter how many adult plays and novels he wrote, he was forever the biographer of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. On starting one of his children's books. Critic Dorothy Parker once reported that on page five "Tonstant Weader fwowed up." Milne's other readers had an entirely different reaction...
...Late Nights. Watson's system was straightforward. While he was boss, his players would eat, sleep, talk and think hockey. Did some of the men feel smug because they had reported to camp at their best playing weight? They got the same treatment as the boys who had run to fat over the soft summer months; they were told to take off a few pounds just to keep them concentrating on their diet. Did they think they were sending those trunks of fancy clothes to the Times Square hotels where they had lived it up during other seasons? "Every...
...spells, screamings, lovers, comas, seances, and always gentlemen who would take the horses out of her carriage to drag her in triumph to her lodgings. Yet she had the pathos of sincerity that lacked only the understanding of itself. In a sense, her stage appearance was a franker, more straightforward sensationalism than that practiced-among gossip columns, fan magazines and semi-public scandals-by Lola's Hollywood successors...
This delicious ambiguity, designed to keep the boy in continual tension, is one of the refinements we collegians have added to what was once a pretty straightforward game. Trying to be honest for once, you let escape a blissful sigh. There went that date, daddy-o. "You beast! You're enjoying it!" She recoils like a snake. Remember the rules: you decide what to do, but she decides...