Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the centuries, students have always regarded earnest study with deep displeasure. The deskbound undergraduate has been variously damned as a swot, a brown-bagger or a mug. Chemistry is still stinks, Thucydides is Thicksides, and studying education is doing Eddyoo. To be failed in an examination has traveled from being gravelled (after Marlowe's Faustus, who "gravelled the pastors of the German church") to being gulphed, ftoor&d, knocked out, pilled, pipped, ploughed or plucked...
...cold war? Ireland's Prime Minister John Costello applauded Fogarty heartily and said a few statesmanlike words about "free peoples of the world" and England's "great wrong." Somebody fired off a bomb in Belfast (a small one which only injured one policeman). But a great many earnest U.S. citizens shredded their morning news papers into confetti and shouted to their wives that Congress had finally gone completely nuts...
Most of his worries had to do with his specialty: batting at a consistently better clip than any other player of his time. It is his earnest and sorrowful conviction that the pitching in the American League is getting better & better as time rolls on. If so, this will obviously make it even more difficult than it has been in the past for Ted Williams to do what he wants to do every time he comes to bat, i.e., hit the ball into the right-field stand...
...second voyage he got a better boat. But once ashore, the pilgrims' troubles began in touristic earnest. They were put through a rigorous customs and herded into a "bare, stinking stable ground" for lodging. Instantly, a horde of Moslem peddlers descended, offering "rushes and branches of trees to lay on the ground . . . water of roses . . . balsam . . . musk ..." Young Arabs so annoyed the pilgrims with their pilfering that the pilgrims were forced to hire watchmen to keep the intruders...
Those who think the Jewish community can be rebuilt on a secular rather than religious basis, Author Herberg warns, are deluded. A return to religious essentials is necessary, and it will call for "an earnest effort to seek out and gather the sparks of faith hidden among the fragments of contemporary Jewish existence. It involves the return of the rabbi from his present functions as administrator, political leader and popular lecturer, to his earlier and more authentic role of religious teacher and counselor. Most of all, it implies a synagogue interested primarily not in making itself dominant as an organization...