Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard, with Barth Royer, Norlander, and Johnson hitting practically every time they shot, began to rally in earnest, scoring 17 of the next 25 points, to come within three, at 75-72, with a minute...
JACK PAAR AND A FUNNY THING HAPPENED EVERYWHERE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Acting as his own writer, producer and star, Jack makes an earnest effort to prove that the real things in life that count the most are those that draw the most laughs...
...religious vocation. He attended public elementary and high schools, helped in his father's store, worked one summer as a conductor on the local trolley line. At New York's Jesuit-run Fordham University he was a conscientious but hardly brilliant student, a debater, and an earnest poet. Only on the eve of graduation did he decide to enter the priesthood. Ordained in 1916, he went to Rome as translator for a Boston bishop in 1925, so impressing Pope Pius XI that he was recruited to the staff of the Papal Secretariate of State, the first American priest...
...Though the boys throw stones at the frogs in sport," wrote an ancient Greek poet," the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest." The Barrow gang -Bonnie and Clyde, his brother Buck and wife Blanche, their goofy, moonfaced driver, C. W. Moss-proves the truth of that maxim with its targets. At first, the shots are scattered in the air, like careless shouts. Then one lands point-blank in the face of a bank clerk. Blood hurts onto the screen, and from that instant, the audience is torn between horror and glee...
...succeed it requires complete control and attention to detail that the ensemble, heads buried in the music, was not prepared to give. The group was often not quite together and tended to play at a consistent mezzo volume. On the whole their performance was earnest but dull...