Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote of 7-2, however, the courts decided that if Trudeau were to proceed, he would not be violating the letter of the law. As the earnest students who haunt Langdell and Roscoe Pound would say, the bottom legal line is all that counts...
SUBWAY CRIME has reached hideous proportions and police protection has faded to near-invisibility in many cities. Those are the facts, as The Crimson correctly points out in its majority opinion. But in earnest fear about "vigilantes" and "commandoes," the majority castigates the Guardian Angels for doing what we believe is valuable and admirable work...
...race against another cowhand mounted on horseback. And though he seems to crave the adventure of war, his sense of obligation is the impelling force, one almost inconceivable to someone of the era after the battle of the Somme. Archy may be ingenuous, but he is thoroughly earnest--earnest like someone who grew up with a Kipling poem pinned on his wall--and not in the least sanctimonious. One of the tangible accomplishments of the film is actor Mark Lee's successful carrying off the role without any lapses of mawkishness...
...page-three feature, which appears every Friday, began with a tragedy. While working in Washington after graduating from Radcliffe, Mary Lord was attacked and subsequently hospitalized. Deane took time off to be with her daughter, and while on a therapeutic trip to the Bahamas, they began talking in earnest about their different views of the world. They wrote down some of their thoughts and forgot about the whole business. A year later, though, Deane's friend, New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin suggested the Lord duo try to market the results of their tete a tetes. Today, the column...
...traffic controllers. But the dictatorial and the insecure have always been fond of the oath as a way to enforce orthodoxy, to lay down a prior restraint upon people's opinions. During the 1950s the loyalty oath turned into a destructively pervasive American genre, with a legion of earnest patriots afoot, like the ghost in Hamlet, crying, "Swear...