Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strictly Educational. Since the Russian press in May began warning the Russian people to beware of American spies traveling in tourists' clothing, several earnest young Americans have been picked up and expelled for such sinister activities as distributing the Holy Bible and copies of the U.S. Information Service's picture magazine Amerika. But the Russians had never before had a case like this and they made the most of it. Kaminsky admitted he had no publisher, only a $2,000 grant from the "strictly educational" Northcraft Foundation of Philadelphia, to which he was to submit a written report...
...state senate. "They came around looking for someone with an impeccable background, preferably a war hero. I decided I had nothing to lose." He won, at 29 became the youngest state senator in Michigan history. In Lansing, he rolled up a reputation as an earnest, ever-smiling Democrat who never skipped a session and rarely missed a chance to run an errand or cast a vote for Soapy. Party chiefs rewarded him with the Democratic floor leadership in 1956, the nomination for lieutenant governor...
...there was a touch of malice in him, there was no envy; it was merely that Max's inner mirth and an ingrained cosmic uncertainty committed him to the unimportance of being earnest. D. H. Lawrence struck Max as a lunatic. He cheerfully confessed to Behrman that Freud was beyond him and added reflectively, "They were a tense and peculiar family, the Oedipuses, weren't they?" Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness technique irritated him: "All of us have a stream of consciousness; we are never without it-the most ordinary and the most gifted. And through...
Please allow me to congratulate Reader B F. Bayruns on his outright, earnest, objective summing up of our modern women...
Mark Mullin swept through the five-mile course in 36:18:3 to win by half a minute over Earnest Tracy, the Penn number one man who defeated him in this meet last year. Ed Hamlin and Jed Fitzgerald placed third and fourth...