Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Silence is not an effective instrument of democracy." Speaking for the French party, anti-Gaullist Albert Gazier. in a rare display of political candor, dismissed all this earnest talk as irrelevant. Don't rock our boat. French Socialists pleaded; there are advantages in having Socialists on the inside...
...their earnest efforts to hold on to Kenya-and to establish some sort of permanent peace between the races-the British have run into two kinds of obstacles. Once it was the Mau Mau terrorists; now it is a new kind of impatient black nationalism led by an aggressive 27-year-old labor leader named Tom Mboya. who wants nothing less than to set up in Kenya the same sort of black republic that Kwame Nkrumah runs in Ghana...
...papers have a startling family resemblance-same front-page makeup and type, same earnest approach to the news. Dwarfed by the New York Times (circ. 570,717 v. 52,137), and heavily dependent on its news service, Chattanooga's Daily Times is nonetheless no poor Confederate-grey copy of its imposing relative. The two stand together on most major issues, e.g., presidential candidates (Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956). But on occasion the Daily Times has tartly differed with the colossus of the North. When Daily Times Washington Correspondent Charles Bartlett, a Pulitzer prizewinner, blasted the Eisenhower Administration for leaking...
...native talent for conveying to doubters "outside" what Alaska is all about. "I'm Mike Stepovich," he says quietly to strangers, and then, tentatively : "I'm Governor of Alaska." Unschooled in the well-oiled sophistication expected of Governors, he is content to make his points with an earnest warmth that radiates alley or when a he waits his barbershop-or turn a in a territorial bowling committee meeting. And beneath all of this is the tough mettle that was born in him and was strengthened on the cold, hard anvil of Alaskan living...
...gave their Chekhov a faithfully reproduced period atmosphere. But their exuberant performance carefully nurtured the most hopeful stems in his grim orchard, and pruned out the darker growths in his vision of social decay. Trofimov, for example, a pompous dreamer in most Western versions, becomes more the fiercely earnest youth, obviously the bright hope of a Soviet future. And Gayev and Madame Ranevskaya, usually played as cultivated bumblers, appear as sober, ordinary people overtaken by cold reality...