Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to demand that the United continuing effort to obtain a negotiated peace, just to both sides, and that the government should not use its plea for 'unconditional discussions' as a shield for States government make an earnest and the continuation...
...generate suspense, Crossbow occasionally switches over to the Nazi side. Peenemünde, before the massive allied attack, is a hive of hard-working scientists and tight-lipped SS men, so earnest about perfecting their flying bomb that they put a cockpit in it and sacrifice four brave pilots in trials...
...Marshall writes. "In operations of war, if you do not have security, you do not have anything. The sending of enough field forces to cover our own installations was the one move that might have initiated a revival of confidence. Amid doubt all around, it would have been an earnest of the American intention to see the show through. There is always time for such moves: the time is when certain gain outweighs the calculated risk...
...spring of 1963, to hear Novelist Gary tell it, was the time when all the bright and earnest college kids in Europe were high on Pope John XXIII and nuclear disarmament. But Lenny, the ski bum, is not bright and earnest. He is bright and cynical, a young American who sees himself as fallout from the population explosion. On the lam from living, he finds escape only in the purity of the Swiss snow fields, where he maintains himself all winter by giving ski lessons, and sometimes his fair body as well, to rich ladies...
...retreating snow line to scrounge a living however he can: below 5,000 ft., after all, anything goes. At just this point the novel begins a long, slick schuss into sentimentality, for what goes this time is the sure novelistic cure for male cynicism-a pretty girl. Bright, earnest and conveniently voluptuous, she is upset because her father, a U.S. diplomat, is so absolutely sweet and wonderful but a hopeless drunk. She is further upset when Pope John dies; so, naturally, she allows her new friend to take her virginity. She is still further upset when he tries to inveigle...