Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rogers also had news, but it was of a happier sort: low-level preparatory arms talks between the U.S. and Russia, he announced, will begin "fairly soon," probably within two or three months. More important, when the two nations start bargaining in earnest-which should be well before Safeguard is deployed in 1973-the system could be scuttled entirely. "If the Soviet Union, when we start these talks, indicates that it wants to get out of the defensive-missile business, we can get out of it very quickly," Rogers said. That reasoning only added evidence to suggest that Nixon...
...builders, guinea-pig breeders, inventors of electronic nutcrackers, boy falconers, girls with pet iguanas, adolescent TV producers and fund-raisers for Biafra. One boy wrote starkly, "I have seared the streets," a sign of the new fad for ghetto toil, which is edging out mental-hospital work as an earnest of social conscience. On the other hand, artistic achievement still earns points. To that end, one Emory applicant used a particularly impressive approach: he sent an anthology of his poetry, urgently requesting its return because the only other copy was in the hands of a publisher. "I doubt that...
...Davenport is a relative latecomer to track. He did not begin running the hurdles in earnest until his senior year at Howland High School in Warren, Ohio. Then he joined the Army and kept jumping-out of airplanes for the 509th Airborne Regiment and over hurdles for a track club in Mainz, Germany, where he was stationed. While still in the service, he qualified for the 1964 U.S. Olympic team but failed to make the finals in Tokyo because of a pulled thigh muscle. Last year, he again made the Olympic team and again was troubled by injuries...
...than any other episode I've been involved in since coming to Harvard. It was an exciting, inspiring experience for me to be exposed to people who had perceived a small part of an ultimate understanding I like to label Truth--and who were, in their own small but earnest and loving way, trying to awaken people to the creative potential within them, and to the means by which their stifled humanness might in some degree be realized. Jack N. Halpern...
...become commonplace to note that the Senate could not afford to lose a man like Gruening. In reality, it probably won't make that much difference. The Senate long ago learned to ignore his simple, earnest pleas. His condemnation of the war was too unreasonable: he denounced not only the policy employed, but the very goals that the policy sought to achieve. You can deal with a man so long as he's willing to state his position within the terms that you lay out for him; but if he refuses to do that, there's nothing left...