Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midsummer, the Soviet press was trumpeting claims that this year's harvest would be the greatest in Russian history. Then last month the breast beating began in earnest. In Soviet Kazakhstan, home of Nikita Khrushchev's ambitious virgin-lands project, Party Secretary Dinmukhamed Kunaev glumly confessed that grain production was down for the third successive year and would fall 36% short of plan. Kunaev-whose two predecessors were fired for farm failures-blamed the collective farmers for clumsy plowing, which permitted "a tremendous incursion of weeds," and for inept practices, which caused "heavy losses of grain...
...Classic Detachment. The moving force behind the meetings was Alan Boyd, 39, a lanky, earnest ex-Air Force troop carrier combat pilot, who was a Florida state utilities and railroad commissioner before President Eisenhower appointed him to CAB in 1959. "I don't want to play God," says Democrat Boyd, "but CAB cannot maintain a position of classic detachment. I do not want my administration to be remembered as the one that let the airlines slide into as much trouble as the railroads are in." Boyd told the airline executives flatly: "We have all got to start doing...
Kennedy: Flexibility. John Kennedy was, as even Gromyko acknowledged, "in great form." His speech was generally well received for its eloquence, earnest warmth and restraint. These good marks were not only a tribute to Kennedy, but also a sign that the U.N. manages to draw considerable eloquence from U.S. Presidents -acting on them somewhat the way a nominating convention affects U.S. Governors. Applause was warm and loud for three of Kennedy's phrases, which kept echoing through U.N. corridors all week...
Despite the peering binoculars of generations of earnest bird watchers, no one yet really understands the migrations of birds. This is partly because birds are small, fast and hard to see, partly because many species do most of their flying at night. But a new, giant bird watcher has recently taken the field. Radar, used since World War II to track man-made flying machines, can spot small birds at night or behind clouds, as high as 10,000 ft. or as far off as 50 miles. The secrets of migration are rapidly being unraveled by electronics...
...Thunder of Drums, the best western so far in 1961, is three kinds of a durn good show: 1) a flawed but earnest attempt to portray the making of a man and a soldier; 2) a carefully untheatrical, affectionately vernacular attempt to revive the daily life of a frontier fort in the 1870s; 3) a masterly attempt to show what fighting Indians was really like...