Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important part of Soviet foreign policy these days floats to the outside world on a thick black tide of oozing oil. Russian oil salesmen with barter deals in their briefcases stride the sidewalks of Beirut, Colombo and Tokyo. Earnest technicians from Moscow probe the earth in India, Ghana, Cuba and Pakistan to help the locals find petroleum of their own. Fat tankers chug out of the Black Sea toward a score of nations already signed up at bargain-basement prices for Commilube, the fuel of friendship...
...teacher at Howard's School of Religion is small, earnest Vice President William Stuart Nelson, 65, a longtime religion professor and onetime friend of Mahatma Gandhi. His 20 students, one-third of them white, attend for good academic reasons but also to learn wiser leadership...
...personal check for $2,000,000: "I didn't know how the hell to add zeroes after the two million, so I just wrote 'Two million dollars' and went squiggle-squiggle with the pen." This, he explained as he handed foundation officers the check, was an earnest of his intent to pay $8,985,000 for the block of stock they had for sale. And so, with a squiggle-squiggle, Philip L. Graham, 45, president of the Washington Post and Times Herald, took control of Newsweek (weekly circ...
...Gaulle asked Bourguiba 1) to help convince the F.L.N. leaders that he was in earnest, 2) to urge on them the wisdom of progressing by stages so that chaos, bloodshed or disorder could be avoided. French public opinion would instantly harden against any policy that seemed to threaten the large and frightened European minority in Algeria, he warne,d. Without making any specific promise, De Gaulle hinted he would soon release from prison a top F.L.N. leader, Mohammed ben Bella. Bourguiba did not press him. "One does not haggle with De Gaulle," he said. "He is too big for that...
Although some would deny that coexistence is writ is the stars, it will shortly become dogms in the Soviet Constitution. Similarly, to confound disbelievers in the law of progress, American auto makers have decided to install safety belts in their '62 models. A world full of earnest men coexisting dogmatically and all wearing safety belts is perhaps a little too richly utopian for a generation taught to look at life gloomily--as if from the inside of someone's Better Mousetrap. Yet such a sunny world is emerging, and science has recently made a comforting discovery which ought to dispel...