Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Such meetings, however, will depend upon the presence throughout the world of such civic-minded communities as Cleveland, whose citizens speak English and 40 other languages. The 20,000 Clevelanders who came to hear the Institute's 23 speakers represented all those groups. As an audience, they were earnest, intent, and responsive. They listened hard, pulled for the speakers who were not at home with the English language, and, significantly, stayed straight through to the end of each session...
...hours, she put her Spokane audience through a program that jumped from Handel to Reynaldo Hahn. At the end of an earnest evening, Jennie Tourel finally let the lowbrows in the audience have Songs My Mother Taught Me, My Hero (from The Chocolate Soldier), and a piece of heavy whimsy by Leonard Bernstein, called I Hate Music. Two nights later she sang in the little college town of Pullman, Wash., and half the town turned out to hear...
Heroes in war novels usually wear an enlisted man's stripes, sometimes bars, rarely anything as awesome as an oak leaf. But the hero of this fast-moving, funny, occasionally angry yarn wears a general's star. Earnest, hard-working Brigadier General K. C. Dennis, who commands the 5th U.S. Bombardment Division, is worried about a new super-secret jet plane which the Nazis are about to put into production. He knows where its factories are hidden, also that his 6-175 could blast them sky-high were they given a chance. But the factories are deep inside...
...best men with him. He told Harry Truman that his task was fulfilled. From here on, he thought, it would be better for the U.S. to be represented by the same delegate on both the Security Council and the Atomic Energy Commission. That man would be Vermont's earnest ex-Senator Warren Austin...
...prizewinning furniture, which would probably raise no cheers in Grand Rapids, was a plywood table and chair with rod-thin, chrome-plated legs. They were designed by California's solemn, earnest Charles Eames, 39, onetime pupil of famed Finnish modernist Eliel Saarinen. Eames, who designed molded plywood splints for the Navy during the war, is a man who believes that utility is beauty's only garment. He finds the kitchen and bathroom the most beautiful rooms in most U.S. homes. By the same token, Designer Eames explains, "when a chair is comfortable it becomes beautiful...