Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev, then, but that does not justify the sense of manifest density that colors Butson's earnest tale about "the determined young man from Stavropool...
...earnest radicalism of the 1930s has become familiar terrain for fiction. Chaim Potok, a chronicler of the factions within American Jewish culture (The Chosen, My Name Is Asher Lev), assiduously attempts to freshen the milieu: his title character and narrator is a thoughtful, believable preadolescent girl; her father is a celebrated radical journalist from an old-line, plutocratic Wasp family, her mother a Jewish emigre...
...Andropov's death 15 months later, Amfitheatrof once again maintained a vigil in St. George's Hall, "watching Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher applying body English during an earnest conversation with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and noting the poignantly graceful passage of sari- clad Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi." Amfitheatrof was covering Mikhail Gorbachev's successful visit to Britain last December when Ustinov's death caused Gorbachev to rush back to Moscow. Amfitheatrof also hurried back, canceling plans to join his wife and two daughters for Christmas in Rome...
...decision, that all sorts of stuff starts appearing." The vote on the $14 million will be in the form of separate House and Senate resolutions and is expected in April. If the Administration's request is defeated, the White House will start pushing its alternative funding proposals in earnest...
...some boys lie but/ I don't let them play/ Only boys that save their pennies/ Make my rainy day") are like an endless series of come-ons, all promise and no follow-through. Madonna's whole image, in fact, is like a finger-flip to feminists and earnest liberals. BOY TOY, says one of her most famous accessories, a belt buckle that competes for body space with various pieces of sacred jewelry - crucifixes, rosaries - that seem to be advertising some unholy sacrament...