Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glistening teeth and a flash of gold, and little lines creep round his fleshy face and forehead like crinkled aluminum foil. His wide, short neck is well-proportioned to fit his wide-shouldered chest and broad stomach. In his jovial moments he bellows; at his most earnest his voice modulates softly and melodiously. He changes his expression in a flicker; impressing the curious stranger, his small, blue-grey eyes grow bluer, his smile brightens. But he can harden his massive face when he talks to a group of underlings; on such occasions, his rat-a-tat of verbiage...
...President Eisenhower the ruling was still "ridiculous." But the FCC lamely argued that the letter of the law left no other choice, said that it was up to Congress to put some common sense into the law. Hustling to do just that before the 1960 presidential campaigns begin in earnest, the Senate subcommittee took under consideration eleven bills to keep splinter candidates from snagging newscasts, heard CBS President Frank Stanton declare that it would have been impossible to give equal-time coverage to all candidates of the 18 parties in 1956. If the rule is not changed, said Stanton, "simple...
Music for a Summer Night (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* An earnest effort to show that even though the network dropped the Voice of Firestone, it can still put on an exceedingly pleasant pop concert. With Metropolitan Baritone Theodor Uppman, Soprano Elaine Malbin, Pianist Earl Wild, Broadway Songstress Jacquelyn McKeever and Comedienne Alice Ghostley...
...Some Earnest Views. "But today, think of the man at the lathe, the drill press, who is earning money which he is putting away in his pension with his company or into an insurance policy. If we today cannot assure him that 40 years from now he is going to have a good living left, then I say that sooner or later he will quit buying insurance policies, he will not have any confidence in the Government bond, and he will not think much of his pension...
Finishing, Ike thanked the fascinated editors for their "patience" in "listening to a very homey exposition of some of my own views and convictions on this subject." Concluded the President: "They may not be very erudite, but they are earnest and firm." Last week, in a period of broad-ranging activity, the President also...