Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These would not be research professorships,--inspired teaching along unconventional lines would be an important phase of the work. Such posts would afford an unusual opportunity for brilliant and imaginative men: the positions by their very nature would be a challenge,--a challenge which must be answered by earnest attempts to achieve that synthesis of modern knowledge which the world demands with so much insistence...
...long wanted to revolt," said a young man named Nguyen Khai Diem. "But we started the uprising in earnest when we received the letter from Chairman Ho saying that freedom was being given back to the people, and we found that...
...Faces: while stone-bald Matyas Rakosi engulfed the Social Democrats, and began slicing up the opposition with his "salami tactics" (a slice at a time), Nagy gave Communism its soft face. Appointed Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, he made a reputation as a "sincere" and "earnest" speechmaker, taught agrarian science at Budapest University, published books on theology, made no protest when his daughter married a practicing Protestant clergyman. By sitting around Budapest cafes fingering his soup-strainer mustache, talking soccer and politics, hinting that there were other methods of doing things than those adopted by Russians, he cultivated "liberal" attitude...
...work because he pleaded the Fifth Amendment in 1951 in refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The studio, a small outfit, was of no mind to risk its principal ($3,200,000) for principle. Be that as it may, Wilson's too-earnest but sometimes charming script is the best thing about the picture; for Director William Wyler, who often seems a pretty citified feller in all these country doings, it will probably make the difference between a hit and a miss...
...that he had given the British newsman a lift, Van Maasdijk promptly denied the rest of the story. But whether the Pictorial spoke the truth or not, declared the potent Het Vrije Volk, the whole thing was "a shameful affair which shows the necessity not only of being in earnest about changes at the court but also of making haste...