Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...profoundly disturbed. The Wallace criticisms were based either on ignorance, or on distortion of the facts. Despite the fact that Harry Truman meanwhile had thrown Wallace out of his Cabinet, Baruch insisted that Wallace come to him and talk things over. Baruch had in mind Wallace's many earnest followers, to whom Wallace was a man of great and sincere ideals, who believed in Henry Wallace and everything he said. Baruch wanted to nail the errors before they did any more harm...
Almost everybody, Democrats and Republicans alike, conceded that Pennsylvania's earnest, able Governor Edward Martin would sweep out New Dealing Joe Guffey and that John Bricker would have an easy time in Ohio knocking off Democratic Senator James W. Huffman. Dopesters were also pretty sure that the Democrats would pick up a seat in Kentucky, which now has a Republican Senator only because of an interim appointment by its Republican Governor...
...eyes moved back & forth like those of spectators at a tennis match. Afternoons, they focused on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field; evenings, on St. Louis' Sportsman's Park. Home and office radios blared play-by-play descriptions; earnest discussions went on at every street corner and water cooler. The Dodgers and the Cards were going down to the wire in the closest of all National League pennant races...
...Including Supreme Court Justice Burton, Washington Letter-Writer Kiplinger, Massachusetts' Senator Saltonstall, Federal Union's earnest Clarence Streit...
Explained earnest Bob Hutchins: "We have been saying for years that the way to improve society is to educate the people, but we have limited education to infants between the ages of six and 21. . . . The world may not last long enough for the restricted campus education of today to affect the course of events. If there is a choice to be made between youth and adult education, then the urgency of our time gives priority to the adult...