Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will soon take over Gio Linh, Con Thien and all the exposed positions where the Marines have taken such heavy casualties in the past year. This changing of the guard along the vital DMZ line is a measure of the new respect for the ARVN. It is also an earnest omen of the responsibilities that it must some day assume everywhere in South Viet...
...their next meeting, however, he takes her to a hotel and begins the affair in earnest. As the summer drifts on, Benjamin's parents begin to worry about his listless manner. They arrange a date with an old school chum (Katharine Ross) who has but one fault: she is Mrs. Robinson's daughter. Benjamin confesses all, the girl runs back to campus, and her mother arranges a marriage of inconvenience in order to keep the couple apart. In the final reel, Benjamin revs up his psyche and his Alfa Romeo and heads for Santa Barbara to break...
...think in terms short of total victory for three main reasons. First, the war has proved to be costlier in lives, treasure and international prestige than the U.S. anticipated when it began fighting in earnest almost three years ago. Second, while the primary goal has been elusive, the U.S. has accomplished some of its lesser objectives in Viet Nam. Its intervention has bought time-time for such nations as Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia to reinforce their own political, economic and military defenses against subversion. And it has helped the process of nation-building in a truncated chunk of a former...
Besides, there are increasing signs that once next year's campaign gets under way in earnest, Johnson will be the ebullient, inexhaustible, larger-than-life campaigner of old, and considerably harder to defeat than a lot of people now figure. During one dizzying 24-hour period last week, he offered a preview of what that campaign may be like-delivering three separate speeches, holding an impromptu press conference, alternately scolding and cajoling his critics, spinning out visions of the kind of nation he wants to help build, and cracking joke after joke...
That evening, Johnson was in deadly earnest when he addressed the Foreign Policy Conference for Business Executives at the State Department. Discussing Viet Nam, he declared that the U.S. involvement had helped those nations in the shadow of China to over come a "paralysis of will" and to begin working together for their mutual security and prosperity. Nonetheless, he added, many in the U.S. were searching for "the fire escape-the easy way out," just as they were "in Mussolini's time" and "in Hitler's time...