Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that record is made forcefully clear to the American people, and I am going to show what we are trying to do in the future and to let the record and the way we have attempted to carry out every promise we have ever made be the earnest of what we intend to do and how we intend to do it in the future...
...nearby Dore Lake, traced out rich seams of ore extending deep beneath the lake bed. Last March the newly organized Copper Rand Chibougamau Mines Ltd. announced plans to build a mill to concentrate 5,000 to 7,000 tons of ore a day, and the boom was on in earnest...
...down to the hard, cold business of politicking. His first serious move was to invite House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to dinner in his Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite to enlist their aid for Ave. With high hopes that a convivial evening and some earnest talk would do the job, Truman produced a bottle of bourbon and, in the long-established spirit of Capitol Hill, proposed that the three "strike a blow for liberty."* But the food was an unfortunately long time in arriving and, although the evening was mighty convivial, a top Truman aide confessed...
Among his early distinctions, Vanderlyn was the first American painter to conquer naked flesh. Actually, he had small choice in the matter; his patron, Aaron Burr, decided it by sending him to Paris instead of London for training. The earnest student from Kingston, N.Y. struck the French capital in 1796, when Jacques-Louis David and his neoclassic followers were preparing the stage for Napoleon's posturings. Trapped in the doctrinaire icebox of neoclassicism, Vanderlyn conscientiously set about acquiring its basic asset: figure drawing. He also acquired its defects: stale colors and chill poses...
With an outsize birthday cake and 200 winking candles, television's biggest drama factory last week celebrated an occasion. NBC's Matinee Theater, which makes an earnest try at bringing a full hour of live theater to 5,000,000 daytime viewers every weekday (3 p.m., E.D.T.). ground out its 200th production in nine months-the equivalent of more than five seasons of once-a-week...