Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, the only girls who succumbed were ones with long, straight hair, soulful looks and knee-length boots. They generally favored long, dangling spike earrings which looked like nails hanging from their ears. But the fever began to infect others, who carry green bookbags, look earnest, and wear sensible shoes. These girls like small earrings which fit like cufflinks in the center of the lobe. As yet the illness has not struck girls who wear cashmere sweaters and stockings to class and only date members of the Porcellian Club, but their immunity will probably not last long...
...Johnson Administration, of which McNamara was earnest emissary, the question now arose whether to implement one or more of Washington's many plans to carry the Vietnamese war up into Ho Chi Minh's North Viet Nam. With November elections in the offing, Lyndon Johnson no doubt wanted to improve the U.S. position in Viet Nam. The nagging question...
...needed to run the government until Africans could be trained to replace them. They were angry because their "golden handshake"-the severance pay of up to $28,000 a man-could not be paid in lump sums. Nyerere's government simply could not afford it. Turning on the earnest charm that had welded his party, he talked 300 of the British into staying on. But then another disaster struck. Droughts and floods in 1962 ruined the maize crop, forcing 500,000 Tanganyikans onto the famine rolls, gobbling up $6,000,000 earmarked for national development. Nyerere already had help...
Crowded House. New Hampshire has long since come to expect such serious efforts in its primaries. The state itself takes its politics in dead earnest. Though it is 45th among the states in population (606,921), its 400-member house of representatives is the fourth-largest in the English-speaking world (after Britain's Upper and Lower Chambers and the U.S. House), giving a remarkable number of people a crack at active roles in politics. In a sense, the house perpetuates the New England town meeting, and in that sort of atmosphere even the most attractive candidates are hard...
...Religion is free to evaluate--free to accept or reject on the basis of quality alone. It is truth-seeking. Adherents believe that an earnest, intelligent search yields far more religious truth than the blind acceptance of the tradition of any sect...