Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day, the U.S. State Department published a massive 77-page "white paper." Compiled day by day as the secret negotiations with Moscow wore on, it revealed the remarkable story of an earnest, untiring and utterly futile attempt to reach understanding with Soviet Russia. The only possible inference: Russia did not want to reach an understanding, and was simply stalling for time...
...Paris, the nations listened to the earnest, urgent words of Count Folke Bernadotte. The U.N. General-Assembly considered his proposals for a Palestine settlement which he had completed just before his death. Both George Marshall and Ernie Bevin backed the plan; it seemed certain that the Assembly would adopt it. Both Jews and Arabs objected, but they sounded more moderate than usual...
...added an earnest warning. "I have no trick answers and no easy solutions," he declared. "I will not offer one solution to one group and another solution to another group. The American people have a right to expect honest answers and I propose to give them...
With its prestige secure, the Marshall Plan forged ahead. In France and most other OEEC countries (notably excepting Italy and Greece), the end of the "dole" phase was in sight and the productive phase had begun in earnest. Western Germany was smiling and flexing its muscles as a result of strengthened currency and tempting food to buy with it-Italian tomatoes, Mexican canned beef, Portuguese beans, U.S. lard. Production was up 20% in the last two months; Ruhr iron & steel set postwar records. In Frankfurt, a mechanic named Johann Schaeffer broke his three-year habit of saying "schreck-lich" (frightful...
...organizer of the procession was the man in charge of defending the new gold yuan currency in Shanghai, deputy economic controller Major General Chiang Ching-kuo, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Russian-educated elder son. A chubby, earnest man who looks much younger than his 39 years, Chiang believes in going to the people. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons he holds open house in his office in Shanghai's Central Bank of China to hear the public's complaints...