Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discovered. And frequently the kind of trend that to each community seems merely a local manifestation takes on a different importance when seen as part of a national shift in sentiment. Such is the subject of shelters-a year ago the disdained preoccupation of a few earnest civil defense types; then the subject of morbid jokes (betokening an increased preoccupation) and now increasingly a topic of lively dinner table concern. This week TIME'S cover story is devoted to shelters, an impressive piecing together of a nation's bewildered discussion and preparation for what it once thought...
...bombs exploded, no antiaircraft missiles were launched, no guns were fired. But there was another difference; it would take days and weeks of study to assess the effectiveness of NORAD's response to the make-believe attack. If that attack had been by someone else and in earnest, the results would be all too apparent all too soon...
State Attorney General Lefkowitz* appeared¤ as an earnest candidate with a machine-gun style of indignant speech. Wagner, who won his primary victory last September by denouncing New York City's Democratic bosses, now aimed at pinning the boss tag on Lefkowitz. Republican Lefkowitz, on the other hand, simply wanted to make it clear he thought Wagner...
...very earnest and quite uninebriated fellow, and engaged him in a discussion on doctors incomes that on the reception given to President Nkrumah Ghana when he paid Tito a visit before the Belgrade Conference. Exercising uncanny ability to sniff out a political discussion--even from the other side a pitch-black room that fairly tremble from the blasts of Satchmo's horn--the others shouted at the host to "cut this Communist propaganda...
...saddens me to report that for the past two weeks, with the apparent connivance of Harvard College, my privacy, my rest, and my studies have all been interrupted by a seemingly inexhaustible horde of earnest young men. They have come to my door vending banners, newspapers, magazines, house cards, two varieties of beer mug, stationery, various organizations, and, it would appear, almost every other amenity of college life. They, of course, are in addition to that most obnoxious gentleman of all, the one armed with whistle and squeaky red wagon. He comes every night, chanting the litany of doughnut...