Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stauffer's greatest coup in Peabody was to buy land options at the going rate of $1 an acre. When oil was struck, some of the $1 options were worth $500, and by 1924 Stauffer had a kitty of at least $100,000 to buy newspapers in earnest. Primarily a businessman, Publisher Stauffer chooses his editors carefully, lets them freely speak their editorial minds...
...warm glow of the freedom of Brown was not to last, and would never be recaptured. "The parting from old Brown was a sorrowful duty," wrote Johnny Rock. "All the fellows wore long faces, and words were few but earnest." Now he turned to another struggle of another kind. "It had been understood from the beginning," he said, "that I would enter my father's office...
Racial Discrimination must be fought everywhere because "the church is committed by its very nature to the establishment of a human society in which discrimination based on race or color will no longer exist." According to the conference's "earnest desire," Methodists should "initiate, contend for and foster, within their own societies, a genuine and allinclusive fellowship...
Reversed Roles. From that position, the campaign of 1956 will get under way this week in earnest. At Gettysburg, Pa., more than 400 Republican leaders will gather to hear President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon launch the G.O.P campaign. At Harrisburg, a few miles to the north. Adlai Stevenson will put the Democratic campaign machinery in official motion with a 30-minute television and radio speech...
...possible consequences of the British and French "precautionary measures" took the possibilities of war seriously. Bonn, averse to any interruption of West Germany's $450 million trade with the Middle East, stood opposed to forceful action yet reported gloomily that the British and French seemed in dead earnest about closing in on Nasser. Italy sent Ambassador Giovanni Fornari flying to Cairo with an urgent appeal to Nasser to soften his stand, sweetened it with a hint of big Italian construction help (FIAT) on the Aswan...