Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas City-from this passage. He can also learn quite a lot of nonsense from some recent French broadcasts (generally, the French desk is one of the Voice's best) which tried to show that Americans are really very cultured. The French Voice recently remarked in dead earnest, upon the publication in the U.S. of a new book on Marcel Proust: "In the subway and on buses, you constantly meet workers and employees, men and women, on their way to and from work, devouring The Guermantes Way and The Past Recaptured...
...week able, earnest Monsignor Franz Jachym, 40, prayed and prepared for his ceremonial consecration as Archbishop Coadjutor of Vienna, a post which would put him next in line to Theodore Cardinal Innitzer, Austria's Roman Catholic primate. Saturday night he fasted. Sunday morning, pale and strained, he donned the robes of his new office, motored to St. Stephen's Cathedral. The eyes of high church and state dignitaries, including Cardinal Innitzer, Papal Nuncio Johann Dellepiane and Austria's Chancellor Leopold Figl, were upon...
...guerrilla forces-Tito's Partisans or Royalist General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks-was "killing the most Germans," and to "suggest means by which we could help them to kill more." It did not take Maclean long to conclude that, as a killer, Tito was deadly earnest, Mihailovich increasingly apathetic. Besides, reported Maclean, it was pretty clear that Tito's Partisans were going to be running Yugoslavia after the liberation, whether the Western Allies helped...
This is not the major for the dabbler nor even for the mildly interested student. Only the earnest student, able to spend a large part of his time studying and working in the ever-present labs, should concentrate in Chemistry...
...last day of the congress, Italy's Premier Alcide de Gasperi made a final effort to break the deadlock, pleaded in earnest but halting French. "I appeal to our French and German friends: let your pace be fast and your vision wide." Then, switching to more fluent German, he added, "We must subordinate even our elections and the destinies of our Demo-christian parties to attaining this union." Despite De Gasperi's urgings, the congress wound up with only a vague, if unanimous, resolution declaring Christian Democracy's "unshakeable will to fight Communism in union . . . with...