Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moscow's lingering chagrin over Svetlana Alliluyeva's defection may have been mitigated somewhat last week by the spectacle of four earnest young Americans describing to Russian audiences their desertion from the aircraft carrier Intrepid as a protest against the Viet Nam war. "They're playing it big," sighed a U.S. official. Twice aired on Soviet television and displayed in Pravda, the self-proclaimed "patriotic deserters" were in Moscow in transit to a neutral country where they might "give all our strength to the struggle against the immoral, inhuman...
...Organization men and women are not in the headlines (as any reader of her fine first novel The Evening of the Holiday might easily guess). They are the secretaries, the personnel people, the heads of committees who keep the files bursting and the memoranda flying, and the earnest subordinates who seek to notch their way to a level where they too can dictate memoranda...
...would like to urge in the most earnest possible fashion that there be no effort by anyone, students in particular, to identify and oppose in any manner the individual participation by Faculty members in confidential or secret tasks of the government. There is a radical difference between this varied and individual work and the classified contracts for weapons development which I had in mind. This individual work covers a wide range of matters and much, or most, has no bearing on military activity. Most of it is the work of those Faculty members with the strongest instinct for public service...
With the off-year elections ended and the jockeying for 1968 started in earnest, George Romney was wasting no time slipping into his silks. This, week some 600 Republicans from across the country will crowd Detroit's riverfront Veterans' Memorial Building to hear what is being billed as a major announcement by Michigan's Governor. It was hardly probable he would go to such lengths to declare that he does not intend to seek the G.O.P. presidential nomination...
...Achebe writes of Ibo civilization as something not simply to be supplanted and forgotten. The story centers on a religious chief, virtually a god to his tribe, whose most potent magic is achieved through a sacred python. Though he distrusts Christianity, he allows an earnest, not more than ordinarily obtuse district officer to send one of his sons to a mission school. To the chief's horror, the Christianized boy zealously imprisons the sacred python in a box. "An abomination has happened," cries one tribesman. "Today I shall kill the boy with my own hands," says the chief...