Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quavering voice: "It's not just his enemies who feel that way. Many of his best friends-and I regard myself as one of those-believe now that this would be the most appropriate course." Griffin said later that he considered the suggestion to resign as the earnest advice of one friend to another...
...thrust into politics in 1946 when a group of Southern California Republicans urged him to challenge five-term Democratic Congressman Jerry Voorhis. His prospective sponsors first wanted to know whether Nixon was in fact a Republican. "I guess so," he replied. "I voted for Dewey." Voorhis was an earnest liberal, but Nixon managed to suggest that he was a dangerous left-winger by linking him to the radical California Political Action Committee...
...biting thrusts of Ohio's John Seiberling or the measured coolness of Maryland's Paul Sarbanes, the attack on Nixon's actions was controlled, yet incisive. When such troubled Republicans as Maine's semi-lyrical Cohen, Maryland's hard-hitting Hogan and the earnest McClory joined the assault, the impact was powerful...
Preparation of the interim report began in earnest in July 1972, when the Planning Office assembled a staff of architects and planners to begin accumulating the massive amounts of data required for such a wide-ranging document. Most of the first year of the project was spent in gathering information for the study. The Long Range Planning Group, a committee of sixteen Harvard administrators chaired by Financial Vice President Hale Champion and including President Bok's other three vice presidents, conducted over 100 interviews with University personnel in every different department and faculty...
...easily draw bottom fish off the ocean floor with a kind of vacuum cleaner or haul in whole finny schools in a single huge seine net. Industrialized nations, like runners poised in their starting blocks, are awaiting only one thing before the race for the sea resources begins in earnest. They have to know who has legal title to all that wealth...