Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in the heat of a political campaign, most Californians agree, U.S. Senator Thomas Henry Kuchel (rhymes with treacle) is a nice guy. Affable, earnest, courteous-Tommy Kuchel is all of those and more. Last week the principal reason for Dwight Eisenhower's trip to Los Angeles was.to lend a needed helping hand to Kuchel's re-election campaign. Yet, after Ike landed, Nice Guy Kuchel was so nice that he let another Republican, ebullient, shoulder-thumping Governor Goodwin J. Knight, elbow him out of the limelight...
Adlai had been toying with his H-bomb notions since last April when, in the midst of his campaign for the Democratic nomination, he said: "I believe we should give prompt and earnest consideration to stopping further tests of the hydrogen bomb." In subsequent speeches and statements he declared his hope that, once the U.S. set the example, the Russians might follow suit. If they refused, the U.S. could detect the violation (by-air samplings) and then "reconsider its policy...
...stand on aid for education. But it is also an example of his lack of vigor. When the crucial debates were taking place, the President was convalescing after his operation. He sent not one word to Congress during the debate. This proved a disastrous silence, if Ike is as earnest as he seems, his supporters are not: the bill was defeated by the decisive votes of a unified Republican bloc...
While Herman was debating airily on the campus, his father was speaking in earnest on the hustings. Running for governor, Gene was charged with dishonesty during his term as commissioner of agriculture; he had once shipped Georgia hogs to Chicago to find a higher price, wasted $11,000 in state funds. Gene laughed off the criticism in his speeches to rural voters: "Sure, I stole it, but I stole it for you." The explanation delighted the hard-pressed countrymen. They rolled up the Talmadge vote. The Talmadges moved into the ugly stone governor's mansion in Atlanta...
Last week the university announced that it would try to eliminate the problem by setting up a "facility" of its own to accommodate the 100 Percenters. But would not membership in the facility still carry a stigma? In an earnest effort to avoid that, Sophomore Vice President Robert Hillier announced that he would accept no bids from any club, but would join the university's facility and bring "60 or 70 of the good men in the class" along with him. "Everyone's afraid that the facility will become a dumping ground," said he. "Someone has to make...