Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn them into specific policy decisions and because, quite simply, the minority leader is disarmingly affable and good-natured. Smiling and handsome, he prefers shaking hands to shaking minds. He retains the stocky build, the rugged appearance and vigor of his football days on the Michigan varsity. And his earnest squarely-cut brow wrinkles in disappointment at the first sign of ideological disagreement. He likes folksy, apple pie and ice cream humor (Any aspirations in the executive branch, Mr. minority leader? "Oh no fellas, my wife wouldn't let me.") When words or ideas come slow, Ford smiles...
...along the vast, sparsely settled 4,100-mile common frontier, from Kha barovsk in the east to Kirghiz in the west. The first recorded battle between Russian and Chinese troops took place in the Amur River valley in the 1680s, and since Sino-Soviet relations began to deteriorate in earnest in 1956, repeated incidents have occurred. Major trouble flared in 1960 and again in 1962, when Pravda reported that 5,000 border "in cidents" had occurred within twelve months. The Russians have since used troops to evict Chinese squatters from islands in the Amur, and Soviet river boats are periodically...
When will the stock market march back to its old highs? A possible answer: when the men who control the nation's 300 mighty mutual funds begin to buy in earnest...
Inspired by their cheerleaders, the men of K. C. Jones battled back. On a jumper by Barry immerman, they closed the lead to 43-41. At this point, Harvard started this season in earnest with a glorious 13-point burst. Gallagher, who was seven-for-seven from the floor, and Barth Royer (15 points) chipped in two buckets each to the rally...
...Cabinet. The feud was sparked by the Cabinet's southerners, who resent the fact that most of the top jobs in Saigon and within the government and army are held by North Vietnamese-born refugees from Communism like Ky himself. Skillfully de-escalating the crisis, Ky used earnest pleas for unity to placate most of the seven Cabinet ministers who originally petitioned him to resign. In the end, only four finally left the Cabinet...