Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been rumors that publication of Eisenhower's book was carefully held up until after the election. But Ike's only stick of political dynamite has already become pretty damp powder. In Potsdam one day, Ike was out driving with President Truman, whom he had found "sincere, earnest, and a most pleasant person with whom to deal." Said Truman, all of a sudden: "General, there is nothing that you may want that I won't try to help you get. That definitely and specifically includes the presidency in 1948." Ike says he replied with a laugh: "Mr. President...
...those who are in earnest about this pursuit, couches are unnecessary...
Lacking Maldarelli's subtlety in sculpture, Mitzi makes up for it in wit, a wealth of ideas, and a willingness to be laughed at even when she is dead-earnest. The hit of her show was a model for a 114-ft. Family of Man Totem that she thought would look well in front of the U.N. building. ("People told me I was a fool to try it, but I said if I wanted to be diplomatic I wouldn't be a sculptor.") Among the most entertaining exhibits was a bulbous Woman-Shaped Vessel seated in a bird...
...last Saturday were nothing but a bad dream, Harvard's thinned football ranks went to work in earnest yesterday on the task of rebuilding their resources in time for the Crimson's forty-seventh meeting with Brown Saturday in the Stadium...
After 36 pages of this, poor old Professor Wilson and his earnest, 201-page discussion just don't have a chance...