Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economy-stunting recessions of 1953-54 and 1957-58 were laid to clumsy Administration handling of defense cuts and refusal to use pump-priming tax reduction. As inflation-wary as the Administration, the Democrats were equally earnest about piling up big federal surpluses earmarked for reduction of the massive federal debt. Rising tax rates in boom time would retire federal debt, leave more funds for private borrowing, they held. Falling tax rates in time of slump would restore private buying power, bolstered by prompt expansion of federal spending on economy-reviving programs...
There is no real argument about the power of SAC, backed up by the nuclear-armed fighters of the Tactical Air Command in Europe, to deter a Soviet attack on the U.S. this year. But earnest and patriotic men are haunted by doubts as to whether the U.S. can complacently rely on SAC to bridge the missile gap as it widens in 1961 and beyond, and whether the President's $41 billion defense budget for fiscal 1961 is an adequate response to the challenge of that gap. The critics do not argue that the 1961 budget fails to provide...
...houseful of books, Betancourt began reading in earnest when he was eight. When he finished the sixth grade-as high as the local school went-his father moved the family to Caracas...
...like to think it is just possible then, in the far distant future, that some old scholar, rummaging about old papers in the Library of Congress, will come across a passage which stated that a long-forgotten English author had . . . in 1960 expressed his earnest hope that the ties between his own country and the United States would become ever and ever closer...
...verbal onions flung by speaker after speaker at TIME'S coverage of Kwame Nkrumah and Tom Mboya was the evident, marked apathy of almost the whole audience of half a thousand persons. Their mood, in sharp and significant contrast with the onstage pyrotechnics was, I think, a reassuring earnest of the common sense and natural warmth accorded the U.S. throughout Accra. Restless, unawed, good-humored, but occasionally stirred at mention of their country's independence, the crowd resembled nothing quite so much as a latter-day July 4 gathering of somewhat jaded celebrators...