Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite early setbacks, the Fair finally started in earnest around afternoon time when the rank and file poured out of Krackerjacks--price tags still clinging to their swinging attire--and headed for Where the Action is At in Boss Town...
...desperation, I had an interview with Charles Geer. Geer is president of the Boston chapter of SIMS, a student at Harvard Business School, and a likeable, earnest person. I asked him if he could explain why I, and others, hadn't been successful at meditation. Jerry Jarvis said the technique was a simple, mechanical matter, and he had assured prospective meditators that anyone would benefit from...
...growing toll of injuries, the government lost its resolve to smash the student revolt; it withdrew its police, and in effect ceded the field to the students. By that time, much of France had rallied to the students' side-and the spread of revolt began in earnest...
...least a while, thus scoring a propaganda victory; but they cannot begin to do that until they eliminate or neutralize the protective string of allied outposts, such as the Special Forces camp of Polei Kleng twelve miles west of Kontum. Last week they began their Highlands campaign in earnest...
Some arbitrariness was of course unavoidable in setting the minimum number of petitioners at twenty per cent of the undergraduate body, but the majority of the Council felt that this figure would be high enough to exclude all but the most earnest petitions. The SFAC would in any case be empowered to reject a petition if it were contested by an opposing group of students or for other; substantive reasons...