Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This splendid eye-opener lends all the more weight to a positive, straightforward American foreign policy supporting Western Europe and Adenauer's approach for the new Germany...
...straightforward solution," suggested the Economist, "is that Mr. Eden should give up the Foreign Office and become the Prime Minister's deputy in fact as well as in name ... A real devolution of authority from Mr. Churchill to him is required...
...twelve he had been a stiff, lonely boy who lived in a big, cold house with no one except his retinue of chamberlains and servants to keep him company. Wherever he went the chamberlains followed, and he seemed unable to make the simplest decision without consulting them. To straightforward Mrs. Vining, that was no way for a boy to grow up, and she decided to do something about...
...graduated to the New York Daily News. "There," she recalls, "we learned to hit 'em in the eye. We belonged to the who-the-hell-reads-the-second-paragraph school." She still tries to hit 'em in the eye, writes fast in a flat, straightforward style...
...Minor Piano Quartet, one of the real gems of the chamber repertoire, received a performance that can most mercifully be described as undistinguished. Not only was the technique (especially of violist Joseph Schaaf) inadequate, but also the conception of the music seemed stilted. Instead of employing the straightforward, relaxed interpretation that the work calls for, the ensemble tried to make it sound like a Nineteenth Century virtuoso piece. They failed...