Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biggest and boomingest of them was held in the Washington and Lee University gymnasium in Lexington, Va., last week. The 1,256 just-pretend Republican delegates were in dead earnest. Months ago they had polled real-life G.O.P. state leaders, learned how they might vote at the real Republican convention in July. Now the kids were committed to vote as nearly like the actual delegation as possible-so much so that many mock delegations got a stream of telephoned instructions from real politicians throughout the convention. Beside that, tough-minded and thoroughly grown-up G.O.P. professionals backing Rockefeller, Goldwater...
Actually, the educational program started in earnest in East Cambridge several months ago. City officials concentrated their efforts on the schools, as they distributed handbills, showed movies, and posted signs...
Some time this week the Southerners are expected to give in and let the bill come to the floor. Then they will begin to filibuster in earnest. But yet another delay is in prospect. Just for form's sake, Oregon's Wayne Morse, a pro-rights man, believes the bill ought to go to the Judiciary Committee, headed by Mississippi Segregationist James O. Eastland, with instructions that it be returned in ten days. In Eastland's hands, a civil rights bill has the approximate survival quotient of a snowball in the Sahara: 121 such measures have been...
...Wade's slow twangy drawl and furrowed face camouflage a tough, sharp mind. Under Wade, says a veteran Texas trial lawyer, Dallas County has "the toughest prosecution in the state of Texas." During the trial, Wade made a sparrow-and-peacock contrast with Belli; he played the earnest, rumpled country boy v. the gaudy city slicker, complete with red velvet briefcase. And Wade certainly knew that in the eyes of a Texas jury, the contrast was all in his favor...
...major fund drive directed at Massachusetts' businessmen began in earnest last night with a New England Convocation Dinner for the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library...