Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign began in earnest last week at Illinois' sprawling state fair. There Republicans ate high off the hog, while Democrats got sow belly...
Some gloomy reports from Paris last week said that European cooperation had been foiled and that the OEEC would have to ask Washington to slice the ECA pie. That, said one high OEEC official (an earnest Frenchman), was out of the question. "To admit to the Americans that we are incapable of dividing among ourselves the aid which they are giving to Europe would be an admission of European childishness-or decadence-which would make us all in this building very unhappy...
When he took the witness stand, neat, small-shouldered Lauchlin Currie, a straightforward, earnest witness, was accompanied by his friend Dean Acheson, former Under Secretary of State. He made a categorical denial of ever having been a Communist or ever having given inside Government information to anybody not authorized to receive...
What could be done to repair China's shattered morale? Last week, in mountain-top Kuling, where he often goes in moments of his most earnest self-searching, the Gimo and his most trusted advisers tried to find answers. Some of the alternative courses which China might take...
Bach and his church board finally decided that he had better take his dreams of unity elsewhere. He went back to college and began studying U.S. Protestantism in earnest. Eventually, he began to agree with Fairfield's old Doc Reynolds: "Churches aren't built on a sense of brotherhood, young man. They're. built on things to be believed . . . Unite the churches and you'll kill what religion there's left...