Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...briefing session, things were worse than ever. Army and Navy officers did such a bad job describing what had happened that it was plain neither had been at the second truce meeting. A few reporters, who had been drinking too much for their own good, hooted derisively. U.P. Correspondent Earnest Hoberecht angrily cried: "General Ridgway assured us that the briefing officers would attend the conferences. I say we've been double-crossed...
...ready to go to sea in earnest. He knew the "riggin' and runnin' gear" as well as the alphabet, but life on a whaler held odd surprises for him. The oddest: having to douse his clothes in urine, the standard detergent aboard the oily whalers, before washing them in sea water...
...groups in every town to combat the Nationalist secret societies, 2) going underground if Prime Minister Malan bans his veterans movement. Said Sailor Malan: "Despite our spectacular beginning, we have only succeeded in focusing public attention on the dangers besetting South Africa. The battle has yet to commence in earnest...
...signs erected at Mihara volcano, Nishikigaura inlet and Kegon waterfall near Tokyo, favorite spots for Japanese suicides. Despite this earnest entreaty, some 500 Japanese, taught by Japanese tradition that self-destruction offers an honorable solution to all kinds of trouble, leaped into the lava, the ocean and the abyss beneath the waterfall...
...first round of Wimbledon got under way this week, the austere ways of the nondrinking, nonsmoking, in-bed-by-11 Australians prompted one U.S. player to call them "too damned earnest." But even Patty and Larsen were buckling down with the other seven U.S. entries to the routine of roadwork and practice they will need if they hope to get past the wise old crocodiles...