Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy with unabashed corniness, because "they are, in a sense, symbols of the New Frontier." On Labor Day, Jack would make the traditional stem-winding speech before the big annual A.F.L.-C.LO. rally in Detroit's Cadillac Square, and after that he would take to the road in earnest, in tours of seven or eight days each, with no more than a day or two off between trips...
...face was familiar. So was the earnest, country-boy style, the dark-framed eyes, the soft, friendly drawl. As he roamed the towns and villages of Tennessee last week, Senator Estes Kefauver seemed his old-shoe self. But at close handshake, there was a big difference: campaigning for a third Senate term, the Keef was running scared. Bird-dogging him was the combined specter of a man and an issue that might well keep Estes Kefauver at home next year. The man was Circuit Judge Andrew ("Tip") Taylor, bombastic relic of the Crump machine and no-quarter segregationist. The issue...
...Earnest students of culture, the German campers efficiently map out their trips to the last detail, often spend a year planning their itinerary. In some cities, street hawkers do a thriving business renting clothes to hairy-legged Germans kept out of historic cathedrals by priests who consider Lederhosen unsuitable wear...
...latest word from the horse's mouth was that Washington's boyishly earnest Senator Henry M. Jackson, 48, who is less intensely liberal than Humphrey, was coming up fast. One of the Senate's few bachelors, handsome "Scoop" Jackson (so called because he delivered newspapers as a boy) was a Congressman for twelve years before he got elected to the Senate in 1952. If Kennedy picks him as his running mate, the choice will be a sign that Jack expects to make national defense a major campaign issue: Jackson is a defense specialist, a frequent and responsible...
...Dreaming? The earnest delegates had come to discuss solidarity among the emerging states of Africa. But from the very first session in Addis Ababa's modern, glass-roofed Parliament Hall, the angry squabbling showed that the fond dream of unity was still a myth. Nigeria's Maitama Sule attacked Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, who dreams of himself as the leader of a united Africa. "If anyone makes the mistake of feeling he is a messiah who had a mission to lead Africa," cried Sule, "the whole purpose of Pan-Africanism will be defeated. Hitler thought...