Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some other Democrat, "I would stump publicly for Dick Welch." In Brooklyn, a trim, earnest party worker named Edna Flannery Kelly, 43, was elected in the normally Democratic, heavily Catholic and Jewish Tenth District...
...Beat Vale" signa started going of around Dillen Field House yesterday as the varsity football team knuckled town to start preparations in earnest for is final game of the aqaron Saturday at New Haven...
...murderer" ringing the doorbell turns out to be only a Western Union boy, etc. The audience feels not only a considerable letdown but also the embarrassing feeling of having been duped. However, the game soon starts all over again, and this time--you're sure--it's in earnest...
Under the high overcast the air was sharp and clear; from the control tower at Washington National Airport, swarthy, earnest 21-year-old Glen T. Tigner could see for miles out over the Virginia countryside. Traffic was light. A war surplus P-38, owned by the Bolivian government, took off for a practice flight at 11:37. It snarled off out of sight. Then there was a lull before Eastern Air Lines flight 537, a four-engine DC-4 inbound from New York, asked for landing instructions...
...earnest hope of the Hynes' supporters that he will not be overwhelmed by the job of reconstructing the city's financial set-up. In the past, the hopelessly confused accounting has been the curse that Curley has placed on the head of his successors. The Boston voters elected the new mayor on the hope that he could untangle the Curley mess; with his experience as acting mayor and city clerk, Hynes has the background to satisfy this hope. But the job is ahead and the work, more than the wishes, of the Hynes supporters will be required to accomplish...