Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loss of her lovers, the English, French, Italian, and Russian generals; so defiant that after a mine he has attempted to open collapses, he shakes his fist at the obstinate mountain and vows to conquer it. And his delivery of the movie's unforgettable line is perfect. Earnest yet energetic, he says to the young Englishman beside him, "Boss, you've got everything--looks, brains.... But you need a little madness...
Many New Yorkers like myself who supported Robert Kennedy's Senate candidacy have begun to worry. During his campaign he showed none of the vindictiveness, the ruthlessness, the drive for power with which myth had endowed him. Speaking, he seemed painfully (and on occasion, ludicrously) earnest, rarely succumbing to the traditional ethnic appeals of New York politics. He talked of his recent move to New York honestly, with none of the coyness or hypocrisy most politicians display in answering embarrassing questions. I found his candor refreshing, his interest sincere, and his support of reform within the Democratic party encouraging. This...
...Portugal over half a billion dollars in war materials through the NATO alliance. Though the U.S stresses that the arms are for the defence of Europe and are "not to be used in the Portuguese colonies", the rebels have captured Americans weapons in Mozambique since the revolt began in earnest in September...
Throughout the next week, Phillips' foes began to work in earnest for a censure. By the next meeting, though, tempers had calmed, Phillips had tightened the joints of his machine, and the Council settled for an expression of "strong disapproval" of its President. In effect, the Council was saying that it was tired of being known as an ultra-conservative group...
...spoke of how important the game would seem when we looked back on it 20 years from now. A indescribable tension hits you before a football game or a wrestling match or any other tough, individual competition. O'Brien sat down and Paul Guzzi stood and talked, obviously in earnest, about giving it all we had in this last big one. I barely heard...