Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statue, cast in bronze, was raised by steam hoist to its permanent perch. It is the strange figure that looms behind the heads of Senator Margaret Chase Smith and her opponent, Maine Assemblywoman Lucia Cormier, on this week's cover of TIME. It is a lady of earnest intention but of dubious quality, who is a member of a whole family of official American follies whose lives have been perfectly miserable...
...Gorged on deviled eggs in the Student Union, supine banqueters cheered a female snake dancer. Borne on a litter into the football stadium, purple-robed League President Ernest ("The Emperor'') Polansky, 18, gave his pagan blessing to Olympic games, complete with chariot races. In deadly earnest, white-robed candidates for top offices politicked in the ballroom. Taking no chances, they made their convention pitches in English...
Founder of the institute is slim, earnest Schoolteacher Evelyn Nielsen Wood, 51, who first caught the fast-reading bug 15 years ago when she handed a master's-degree term paper to her speech professor at the University of Utah. He flipped the 80 pages once-and marked the paper without missing a detail. His untrained speed: 6,000 w.p.m. Teacher Wood found 50 other such prodigies, including housewives and a sheepherder. All had common characteristics: they read whole paragraphs at a time, remembered everything. Concluded Teacher Wood: "Speed is not most important, but only through speed...
...small crowd was chased away from the fence, and not even the menus for the meals were published. Once Adenauer slipped out for an hour's visit to the great Gothic cathedral at Chartres. For the rest of the time the two men talked and walked, engaged in earnest conversation with barely a handful of officials present...
...airport this week. Speaking to a dawn patrol of newsmen, Lumumba said softly that peace in Congo "is conditioned on the immediate withdrawal of Belgian troops," and offered his "compliments and friendship" to President Eisenhower. Signing autographs on his way through the air terminal, and looking more like an earnest divinity student than a political boss, Patrice Lumumba slipped into a rented Cadillac and was whisked off through the sleeping borough of Queens to Manhattan's respectable Barclay Hotel. The V.I.P. luncheons and the ceremonial meetings with U.N. and U.S. representatives might help to mellow Lumumba after the past...