Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Governor Averell Harriman accused the Administration of "naivete" in dealing with international Communism. Said Harriman: "We saw this last summer at the Geneva Conference. There President Eisenhower . . . publicly credited the new Soviet rulers with a desire for peace no less earnest than that of the West. Nothing could have served the purposes of Khrushchev more than that...
...York Attorney General emphasized that he did not favor the use of force and coercion in the South, but held that there must be "earnest, persistent and forward moving effort to sustain the rule of law." He said that more had been done for civil rights in the Eisenhower Administration than in the preceding twenty years...
Doctor at Sea is a most appropriate title for this latest British contribution to broad brawl-and brothel humor. The Rankmen have wandered from the drawing room to tackle slapstick of the old formless Hollywood kind, and they seem almost as uncomfortable in this role as their earnest young doctor who is forced to cope with unreasoning sailors and voluptuous prostitutes. Given a crude genre, however, Doctor at Sea still manages to be highly amusing, to an uncritical audience...
...years the earnest masses of Music I have slurped mustard on Milhaud as they tried to cram the week's listening assignment into a lunch hour whiled away in the dank Paine Hall basement. Neither their appetite for ham nor their taste for the good Frenchman was aroused; snatching idle moments through the day to study for a full course in Harvard College often seemed a hopeless exercise. Certain hours became more popular than others, often the room was overcrowded and the listening time seemed restrictive. With a music library promised for Autmun, and a Lamont record collection at least...
...rebellion had started in earnest. That night, the watchman protecting the college property was attacked. For the next four days, there were daily disturbances. Then on May 26, Quincy warned the freshman and sophomore classes that "legal process, civil or criminal," might be taken to punish or prevent "such outrages as had been committed on College property." That night there was more rioting...