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Word: straightforwardly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obstinate ; on the contrary, we were realists and straightforward, but the British government has not proved to be in favor of any proper solution of the Middle East problems, apparently as such solutions are incompatible with their own selfish and imperialistic interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...ways plausible. The lieutenant (Michael Denison) is no idealized figure; he is young, cocky and rather callow. The unglamorous Portsmouth barmaid (Patricia Plunkett) with whom he falls in love is as ordinary as their romance. Director Ken (Robin Hood) Annakin has made Land fall into a simple, straightforward, almost old-fashioned story with some richly convincing detail. By making real and affecting both the fallibility and the nobility of ordinary people in a time of crisis, the film takes on an extraordinary dimension of heroism without heroics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 25, 1953 | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

Beyond mundane duties, such as storing one's record for the edification of prospective employers, a yearbook should stimulate and preserve memories of a year at College. Most yearbooks translate this into firing squad pictures, exhaustive lists of names, and straightforward accounts of the year's highlights. The Harvard Yearbook has added the entirely praiseworthy aim of evoking, by way of salon photography and a high standard of literacy, the College's atmosphere...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: 317 | 5/14/1953 | See Source »

...Dodds' cover for the April Advocate will boost the magazine's sales at the newsstands. Not only is it fresh and clever, but it very nearly blots out the name of the publication. If the cover of the new issue is hard to read, however, the content is generally straightforward and four of the pieces are good...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: The Advocate | 4/29/1953 | See Source »

Meanwhile, telegrams from all over the country flooded into CRIMSON offices at 14 Plympton St. "You have done much to ease the tensions of the cold war with your straightforward humor," one from Chicago read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poonsters Demand Russians Return Ibis | 4/22/1953 | See Source »

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