Word: earnest
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Although there were few overt signs of communist activity in the Harvard community, and the witch hunts of the McCarthy era had not yet begun in earnest at the time of the Tribune article, open debates concerning communism were common in campus forums and in the pages of The Crimson...
...Grand Architect himself. There was a time when America was dying to know and no one was telling. Freemasonry, which claims to be the world's oldest fraternal society, has been called the civil religion of the American Revolution. As recently as 1959, its U.S. branch constituted an earnest and convivial army of 4.1 million. Yet today those ranks are decimated. True, the group is still a philanthropic presence, donating some $750 million a year to charities. But its 2.1 million national membership, notes Richard Fletcher of the Masonic Information Center in Silver Spring, Md., is "the lowest...
That's why Baxter and his colleagues are betting that the public will be more excited by yesterday's heroic tomorrow than today's more jaundiced one. Given that the nation's most prominent exemplar of earnest, old-fashioned futurism is Al Gore, it's not a bad wager...
...clear star of the Education School program was Elmo and his puppeteer Kevin Clash. Elmo stole the show repeatedly by questioning an especially earnest panelist, or simply by sitting on the shoulder of the person next...
...overcast afternoon, in a modest room in Minneapolis, 23 teenagers are in earnest conversation with one another--and with the Lord. "Would you pray for my brother so that he can raise money to go [on a preaching trip] to Mexico?" asks a young woman. "Our church group is visiting juvenile-detention centers, and some are scared to go," explains a boy. "Pray that God will lay a burden on people's hearts for this...