Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they expect? Some of them had come hoping for a kind of miracle, an authoritative sweeping-away of all confusions and doubts. What they heard was an unadorned, informal discourse delivered from one page of notes. What Eisenhower had to say was not so much a report as an earnest homily...
...exclusively Communist address; it was used, he said, by the organizers of a labor group. Another former TVAer described Remington as a half-baked young radical who affected old shoes tied together with strings and put-putted around Knoxville on a motorcycle. The portrait was of an earnest decrier of entrenched privilege...
...school-of-Paris art might be art. To let Britons judge the stuff for themselves, the academy last week opened a show of France's top moderns. Among those best represented were Utrillo, Rouault, Braque, Chagall, Leger and Matisse*-all of them old men now. Critics and the earnest students who jammed the exhibition rapturously agreed that it was great. But the old guard closed ranks, fixed bayonets, and refused to surrender...
...Earnest John G. Gill looked like just the man to take care of the Unitarian Church in the quiet, well-kept town of Alton, 111. (pop. 32,000), on the bluffs of the Mississippi River. At Harvard, John Gill had written his Ph.D. thesis on Elijah Parish Lovejoy, the fiery Abolitionist minister and editor who was beaten to death by an Alton...
Last spring, the world's first 55-gallon steel drum to be lithographed in full color flashed down the line at Rheem Manufacturing Company's New Orleans plant. Rheem had begun in earnest to cash in on its 1949 investment of over a million dollars to develop color lithography and precision inner linings for 55-gallon steel shipping containers. The exclusive Rheemcote process was realizing its aim: to make colorful steel salesmen out of the once drab steel drum...