Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERY day, First Lieut. Steven Schreiner, an earnest young infantry officer whose unit guards the strategic Y Bridge in Saigon, dutifully fills in MACV Form 10. He no longer cringes when his buddies rib him about the re port and his peculiar command-a laudable sign of self-control. For MACV Form 10 is the Geese Reaction Report, and Schreiner's platoon includes 40-odd riflemen and a gaggle of six belligerent geese...
...August and then petered out. The Communists could renew it at any moment, he said, or they could simply stretch out their timetable. They might even abandon the attack altogether. If they do, Abrams thinks that Hanoi might rapidly ask for a cease-fire and begin negotiating in earnest at the Paris talks. But he emphasizes that that is only one of the several courses open to Hanoi...
While most of the resisters are earnest, well-meaning crusaders who feel that time served in prison has toughened their character, they are learning that many people regard them simply as ex-cons-and look on them with persistent disdain. Such treatment may not come as a surprise to the resisters. But it still hurts...
Homer finds whimsy everywhere. Wall Street, he notes, is physically only "an inauspicious little alley." He depicts the typical bond buyer as a "friendly, earnest, knowledgeable-looking man who sits at a big desk staring at a small piece of paper with an expression on his face of agonized apprehension. He is worried because he doesn't quite know what he should be worried about...
State of Exception. Though they have posed a nuisance problem to police for years, Basque terrorists began striking in earnest only last spring. Since April, they have exploded dozens of plastic bombs, set fire to one mayor's home and financed their movement with the proceeds of five bank robberies. Then in early August, a bearded gunman staked out the home of Meliton Manzanas Gonzales, 58, the tough police chief of Spain's Basque region and an unpopular representative of General Francisco Franco. When Manzanas ar rived home from work, the assailant gunned him down from ambush with...