Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week that the U.S., belatedly but determinedly, turned. In his flat, Missouri accent, President Truman at last lifted the nation from its easygoing "grey mobilization" into the first real phase of total preparation. In the setting of Christmas time, Christendom's mightiest nation began to gird itself in earnest to face the prospect of total...
...women still answer Mrs Fox's query with a fervent yes. For the Fox sisters, though they later went on tour to confess that their apparent psychic powers were an "absolute fraud," really started something. By 1854 (while the Fox sisters were still "psychic"), 15,000 earnest believers had signed a petition demanding that Congress appoint a committee of scientists to investigate such phenomena.* And belief in spiritualism continues to flourish. This month, Britain's House of Commons gravely read for the second time a bill to protect "genuine" mediums by repealing the Witchcraft...
...Dead Earnest...
...taking over in September in the optimistic days of the Korean war, had ordered a careful re-sighting on all grand plans. The re-sighting held things up even more, but, the nation could only hope, made possible a more sensible program when the nation began to mobilize in earnest...
Reported TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs: "Bao Dai has great intelligence and charm and the pneumatic resilience of a heavy-duty tire. Some critics seem to assume that all would be well if only Bao Dai looked less like an amiable playboy and made more earnest speeches to rouse the people against Communism. But if Bao Dai were Peter the Hermit himself, I doubt that he could launch such a crusade. The key issue is a matter of principle, not of personality. To any Vietnamese who thinks about anything beyond his paddy field, national independence is the one dominant thought...