Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fleeing from some unnamed shoot-'em-up. five badmen ride into the tiny frontier town of Firecreek, where they settle down while Fonda recuperates from a bullet wound in his side. The sheriff turns out to be earnest, mild-mannered James Stewart-a simple sodbuster who carries no gun and wears a badge emblazoned SHERAF that his kids made for him. Fonda has the wound.in his side, and later his wounded psyche, nursed by a local spinster (Inger Stevens), while his boys raise hell with an itinerant preacher (Ed Begley), smash up a saloon, and try to gang-rape...
...McCarthy supporters' homes). In keeping with McCarthy's own austerity, the kids largely eschewed beer drinking, though one group of New Yorkers nearly came to grief in a Rochester bar: a local tough announced that "McCarthy is a mongoloid idiot," but was soon buying beer for the earnest young proselytizers on the simple strength of their arguments and jovially warning them to "drink it or wear...
Heavyweight coach Harry Parker described yesterday's conditions on the river as "essentially free of ice" for the first time. His oarsmen have been making sporadic forays onto the ice-choked Charles since last Wednesday, but now on-the-water training can begin in earnest...
Among people who consider themselves sensitive, or philosophical, or earnest, it is fashionable to say the world is screwed up--more screwed up than they are. But few of these individuals are desperate enough--or have the courage--to make their belief real by acting at odds with the world. Those who do are called psychotic...
...Gray says, "we'll eventually have to produce, not just talk" if residents are to begin to work in earnest for Model Cities. To date, many of the active workers have been members of already existing block organizations in the area. New blood is coming in, Gray feels, but he cannot tell how much...