Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...category-making so dear to journalism, the city generally comes under the file marked Problems. The subject suggests TV panels where earnest sociologists talk of urban renewal, of megalopolis, juvenile delinquency, blight, population movement and traffic. The mayors of these vast places seem to spend their time either shaking hands with somebody for the photographers or complaining of their burdens. TIME, a city-made product itself, takes up the subject this week by selecting, but not at random, the mayors of five U.S. cities-New York, Chicago, Boston, Houston and Los Angeles. Its cover story verifies the existence...
Beyond the melodrama in this and similar passages lies a serious, or at least an earnest argument. "Out there the officers and men discovered that military effectiveness requires adopting the techniques used by the Communists: guerilla warfare, total mobilization of the population, and an unflinching dedication to the achievement of the political goal, without military unnecessaries like pomp and show, or indulgence in intellectual subtleties like defining and refining the goal...
...played football, won a track scholarship to the University of Alabama. Unhappy at Alabama ("Bear Bryant had just come, and all they thought about was football"), he quit in his sophomore year and joined the Marines. Assigned to Marine Corps Schools in Quantico, Va., Uelses began training in earnest, determined to break the elusive 16-ft. barrier. He worked each day with weights to strengthen his arm, shoulder and back muscles; each night he drove 50 miles to practice vaulting in the University of Maryland's indoor pit. "I never really had a coach," he says. "I just picked...
...encyclical Mater et Magistra (TIME, July 21), Pope John XXIII came out for the kind of "socialization" that includes economic planning and state-run welfare programs. He expressed an "earnest wish" that Roman Catholic bishops give "more and more attention" to spreading this social doctrine. A new survey, published by the national Catholic weekly magazine Ave Maria suggests that some of the U.S. Catholic clergy were not listening very hard...
...rule, the party is shot through with corruption, inefficiency and favoritism. The major problems that existed at the time of Gandhi's death are still to be solved. India's economy is a schizophrenic mixture of state and private enterprise. Religious fanaticism and factionalism remain strong, despite earnest efforts to overcome them. Poverty and illiteracy afflict the vast majority of the people, and the birth rate spirals upward at the rate of approximately 10 million new mouths to feed each year...