Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chief. The issues were as grave as any in the nation's history, and as politically combustible, but witness and questioners responded with fairness and decorum. What might have been dangerous to the nation was not; in fact, the U.S. was given a chance, in a deadly earnest game of Questions & Answers, to appraise, with more facts than it ever had before, the difficult decisions to be taken...
After the war, Chauvel got money from the French government, set about reconstructing the cathedral in earnest. By last week, after six years of patient reconstruction work, citizens of Rouen could proudly announce that their cathedral was out of danger...
...Leigh Ribble was disturbed. His Grace and Holy Trinity Church in midtown Richmond, Va. seemed to be doing well; its generally well-off Episcopal parishioners were better-than-average churchgoers and they were raising their children to be credits to the community. But earnest Rector Ribble, 48, who also edits the weekly Southern Churchman, had a growing sense that between him and his congregation there were "barriers of language, of plain ignorance and of lack of conviction...
...Earnest A. Booton, professor of Anthropology, declined to cerement on the book, saying "This is an issue for the men in Social Relations...
Though played in deadly earnest, Valentino is fun-in the sense that watching the jerky charades of early movies is fun. Its dialogue sounds as hackneyed as silent subtitles read aloud. Its simple-minded love story, which begs for trilling piano accompaniment, seems too naive for Valentino to have enacted even on the screen of the '20s. Its Technicolored Valentino (Anthony Dexter), trysting with the actress wife (Eleanor Parker) of his director (Richard Carlson), pours out his mockpassionate speeches in a thin stream of Midwestern nasality...