Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With poignant force, the problem hit St. Louis' energetic, earnest Dr. Samuel Shepard Jr. two years ago. A Negro, he had risen from abject poverty in Kansas City. Mo., put himself through the University of Michigan by scullery work. He climbed steadily in the St. Louis public-school system, first as teacher and athletic coach, later as principal. To his white colleagues, it was no surprise. "Sam Shepard is willing to work three times harder than anyone else," one of them says. "He stays with a problem like a dog on a bone, until he gets the job done...
...weak to raise their rifles, surrounded by several hundred Communist troops, 25 heroic U.S. infantrymen sit caked in blood and sweat and dust, and wait for help to come -wait unaware that all the while, back in the headquarters of the Far East command, a little group of earnest, greying generals are solemnly debating a question that may carry, for the unmilitary observer, some suggestion of the impersonal horror, the mindless irony of war. The question: "Do we really want to hold Pork Chop Hill...
...Anaconda could not overcome its reputation. Suspicious Montana readers automatically looked for the "copper collar" riveted around every story. Ironically, the policy of playing down company news prevented Anaconda from playing up its notable contributions to the state in its earnest postwar campaign to win friends, e.g., the $400,000 employees' club given to Butte. Circulation grew slowly; last year Anaconda's papers netted a paltry...
...Christian Herte>r, taking the chair next day, plunged straight ahead to the conference's real business. His lucid opening speech made clear that there would be a summit conference afterward if "constructive proposals" were made. He affirmed that "the U.S. is in deadly earnest about wanting to reach agreements." After the three other ministers and representatives of the two Germanys made speeches, Christian Herter proceeded to put forward the West's "package" plan...
...Soviets always staged a good show. They grabbed off a large, airy upstairs conference room, while Britain and the U.S. were lodged in the basement. They were the only Big Four delegation to brief newsmen in two languages (Russian and English). While Western spokesmen -the U.S.'s earnest Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Berding, Britain's smooth Peter Hope and France's witty Pierre Baraduc-were stuck with reporting the actual facts of the conference, Russia's lively Mikhail A. Kharlamov labored under no such handicap, tirelessly and articulately peddled the Communist line...