Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ballot in five states besides Ohio: California, Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Kansas. They have produced floods of new registrations; most of it is probably Democratic; in California, only one of each four of 457,000 new voters registered Republican. But angry questions at political rallies, letters to editors, earnest debate at many a saloon and street corner indicate that even union rank-and-filers-not to mention farmers and white-collar workers-are seriously disturbed over Big Labor's evident excesses...
...along with your comments on my opinion in the nudist case. You have deceived your readers; you have portrayed me as a tasteless, witless and publicity-hungry exhibitionist; you have done a vast disservice to any fair public concept of the dignity and responsibility of our courts and the earnest hard-working men who sit on them. You have literally stripped me in public and have forced upon me, a justice of a supreme court, the highly distasteful and undignified task of publicly defending myself...
...Frank C. Moore was persuaded to step out of a bright future in Governor Thomas E. Dewey's administration, step into the Rockefeller Government Affairs Foundation as president, a position in which he would be within hailing distance for political counsel. Political geiger counters began to click in earnest last year, when Rockefeller volunteered to help build a stadium for the soon-to-leave-Flatbush Brooklyn Dodgers. He accepted more and more invitations to women's club luncheons and rubber chicken dinners. He was appointed chairman of a state commission to study proposed changes in New York...
...regions. Roman Catholic Lawrence may have trouble in the rural Bible belt; Pennsylvania has never elected a Catholic Governor. All the while, Republican McGonigle (a Lutheran) is whaling away at the sins of Democratic Governor George Leader (who is running for the Senate), and Pretzel-maker McGonigle's earnest approach is winning small but sympathetic audiences. But in machine-ridden Pennsylvania, sympathy rarely wins elections...
Tempted by a standing job offer on the Abilene Daily Reflector, Milton was even more attracted by the promise of a teaching career from Kansas State President William Jardine, who had been vastly impressed by the scholarship of earnest, bespectacled Milton Eisenhower. Milton accepted Jardine's offer-but wound up with another job. A Republican Party fieldworker came to Kansas State to help Milton organize a campus political club, casually suggested that Milton apply for the consular service. Milton did; soon came a telegram offering him a consular post in Edinburgh. Milton uneasily approached Jardine for an honorable exit...