Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S exposé of the yawning chasm which exists between our professions and practices of Christianity and democracy deserves earnest consideration...
...Palestine last week, an earnest gesture of peace became a clever pretext for war. Last September, U.N.'s Count Bernadotte made a ruling on the hotly contested supply routes in the northern tip of the Negeb desert. The Egyptian army, he said, could use the roads for six hours each afternoon to supply their forces in the interior across an east-west road running under Jewish guns. The Jews, in turn, would have six hours each morning to supply their settlements in the Negeb across a north-south road blocked by Arab troops. When the Egyptians rejected the ruling...
...fighting that followed was in deadly earnest. The same evening, as prearranged, Israeli bombers took off on what the government called an "action to open and keep open the convoy routes to and in the Negeb." Some of the heaviest bomb-loads yet dropped in the Holy
...Salesman. Psychiatry's practitioners are also, of course, its salesmen. One of its most earnest practitioners and salesmen is a rangy, friendly, 49-year-old Kansan named William Claire* Menninger (with a hard g). This month Dr. Menninger is spending only nine days in his neat, pine-paneled office in Topeka. The rest of the time he will be on the road, making speeches and drumming up enthusiasm at committee meetings, policy conferences, and get-togethers of the high brass of U.S. psychiatry...
When the convention had adopted George Drew's platform, there was nothing left for it to do but adopt George Drew. On the first ballot Drew got 827 votes, to 311 for Diefenbaker, and 104 for earnest M.P. Donald Fleming, a rival from Drew's own Ontario bailiwick...