Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were also rehearsed spectacles that were part of a careful plan laid down by autocratic President Ferdinand Marcos and his powerful First Lady Imelda, who had much to gain from a festive association with John Paul. Everywhere, as if on cue, Filipinos were on hand to enact earnest welcoming playlets, sing, dance or pose as "tribesmen" in outdated garb. During one motorcade, a phalanx of trained water buffalo knelt in reverence just as the pontifical car swept by, while at another point a beaming bride and groom in a mock wedding paused in mid-ceremony to wave...
...forward to various Exxon division managers as possible employees. The managers select about 200 to receive a Mailgram inviting them to sign up for interviews during Exxon's visit to the B-School. Of these, about 100 accept the offer, and it is these 100 McCreery concentrates on in earnest...
Despite a brilliant winter sun, the frigid wind is piercing. Presentation of wreaths keeps the President-hatless, dressed in a lightweight black topcoat-standing in the cold for nearly 15 minutes, and he is almost shaking by the tune he speaks briefly about the President "whose grace, compassion and earnest commitment is remembered in countless biographies, folk tales and poetry...
...fettucini for one of the five cigarettes he smokes during dinner, he reflects on his image. He is a young man of 34 preaching hellacious economic sermons to other Cabinet members and congressional committee chairmen old enough to be his father. Neither his prematurely gray hair nor his earnest manner adds any years to his appearance. "If this thing doesn't work," he concludes, "I know I'll get the blame." Then he shrugs. "So I'll go to something else...
...deserted after 20 years of faithfully riling through the turnstiles. Even New Orleans saloonkeepers wished the Raiders ill after some of the players blew off a bit too much steam in the French Quarter, resulting in fines of more than $15,000 from Coach Tom Flores. Finally, the earnest, all-business Philadelphia Eagles, who had already murdered the Dallas Cowboys in the playoffs, were eager to prove that clean living and hard work will...