Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Ike Eisenhower confirmed last week what most of Washington already knew: that he would step out-probably within a year-as Chief of Staff and be succeeded by gentle, earnest General Omar Bradley, head of the Veterans Administration. That sounded O.K. to almost everybody: Ike would be free to go into business (or, perhaps, politics) and General Bradley, after getting VA on the right track, would have greater scope for his great talents. What was even better news was the flat statement of a presidential confidant that General Bradley's successor would not be-as the rumormongers...
Harry Truman greeted it as "the world's supreme deliberative body." What were the bones behind that fat phrase? What was the "Assembly of the United Nations" whose advent in New York raised vague but earnest hope, vague and earnest bewilderment? People were becoming familiar with the eleven-man U.N. Security Council, which met in continuous session to keep the world's continuously threatened peace. What was there left for this 51-nation Assembly to do? Where did it come...
Radio got a good talking-to last week from an experienced and earnest man, CBS Chairman William S. Paley. He jabbed his points home hard, but it was like jabbing at marbles; most of the 4,000 broadcasters who had piled into Chicago were more concerned with the unprogrammed hoopla of the National Association of Broadcasters' first postwar convention. Said Paley...
...United Press correspondent in Tokyo named Earnest Hoberecht had time on his hands. Nobody in Japan, he noted, had written a Hucksters, an Egg & I or an Amber for the postwar Japanese trade. He decided to do it himself...
City College students (mostly men) live at home, generally consider college a serious preparation for making a living, usually hurry from class to class in businesslike silence or earnest conversation. In the 30's the school had a reputation for pacifism and radicalism; now its scholarship and its first-rate basketball teams are its chief glories. The main campus, on St. Nicholas Heights in upper Manhattan, has six be-gargoyled Gothic buildings; but its downtown branch at 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue looks like any big Manhattan office building. Students who don't foregather at the nearby Automat...