Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman had been trapped by the feint, caught off guard. But now he was ready again, and the swordplay went on in earnest...
Ashore, the G.I.s snapped to their task, moved out through Pohang to the front. "Our job," said General Gay crisply, "is to kill North Korean troops until the United Nations has won a victory in Korea." The U.S. buildup was on in earnest...
Salves for "curing" cancer of the breast have long been among the most infamous of quack nostrums. Last week a salve got a respectable introduction to some distinguished physicians. At the Fifth International Cancer Congress in Paris, an earnest German scientist reported encouraging results in treating breast cancer with a salve containing a chemical derived from a common garden bulb...
...bookish man, plain and homely, he holds to concrete propositions which he pursues with earnest intent. He was pursuing a concrete proposition a year ago when, pleading for military funds for the North Atlantic pact nations, he said: "With our allies, strong or weak as they may be, we face a long period of tension . . . We can surely anticipate that any aggressor will alternately press and quell the crises, hoping to hold the signatory powers in perpetual irresolution. But irresolution ... is born of fear and selfishness, and of such meanness that all despise it. Our rise to leadership must...
...distinction between military security and military prestige. While no newsman wanted to report strictly military information that might aid and comfort the enemy, every honest newsman wanted to tell the story straight, even if the telling reflected on the prestige of U.S. arms. As U.P. Tokyo Bureau Chief Earnest Hoberecht said: "The United Press will report victories when there are victories, but we cannot report victories when there are defeats...