Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week named the six members of a bipartisan Civil Rights Commission created by this year's Civil Rights Act. Since the commission is a new instrument of Government, no one dared predict just how much it could accomplish, but almost everyone agreed that Ike had staffed it with earnest and judicially minded men. ¶ Commission chairman: former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed, 72, who retired last February. Kentuckian Reed concurred in the Supreme Court school-desegregation decision of 1954, wrote the majority opinion that outlawed the Southern white primary. Southerners could take comfort, however, from Reed...
Despite the toll of influenza on the cast, Thomas Teal directed a sensitive and thoughtful production. He shuffled his brood on and off stage rapidly, and brought some comic order out of their wild gestures and earnest accusations. Costumes, lighting, and sets were all excellent...
...policy does not apply to emergency conditions. It is our policy and our earnest endeavor that no one in dental pain shall be turned away. We save time between our filling appointments so that we shall always be able to take care of emergencies. We also give high priority to the restorative programs which grow out of an emergency situation, such as root canal treatment after an acute abcess. In this way we handle a great many major dental problems: the urgent ones. James M. Dunning, D.D.S., Director, Dental Health Service...
...private chat with his Education Minister, and the next morning Dahanayake took the only way out: he baldly denied that the incident had taken place. "There is no truth," he said, "in reports that I refused to see the U.S. Ambassador." Ceylonese, who know a rude minister from an earnest ambassador, were beginning to see some good in Mr. Gluck...
Lack of originality, however, is the real bane of this musical. The lyrics of Frank Reardon are a little more inane than most; but Earnest G. Schweikert's music is acceptable commercial fare and the dances staged by Bob Hamilton are at least as lively as those on any television show. Thus Eddie Foy, who plays Rumple, Stephen Douglass, the cartoonist, and Gretchen Wyler, as a sex-smitten gag writer, have at least acceptable material with which to work. For Miss Wyler, a fine comedienne and dancer, it is nearly good enough, but the show as a whole can scarcely...