Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taste of triumph soon soured. At week's end, the Tories chalked up another win in a by-election in Moss Side, a constituency in Manchester. This reduced Labor's overall majority in Parliament to six. If the Laborites did not start eating duck dinners in earnest, they might find that the menu had been changed to crow...
...weeks, then came to the U.S. for an operation, bringing his family with him. Under Chiang, meanwhile, the Nationalists' resistance seemed to stiffen. The Chinese air force and navy set up a surprisingly vigorous blockade of the Communist mainland. Nationalist troops on Formosa began training in earnest under capable...
...Prize winning novel, "All the King's Men" is the story of Willie Stark in his rise to state governorship. It is a picture with a delayed-action moral, and that is the source of the film's greatness. You don't realize you have been listening to an earnest damning of present day politics until you can unglue your eyes from the screen and start thinking...
Professor Earnest A. Hooton, chairman of the Anthropology Department and Curator of Somatology, had no opinion on the subject at all. "I have no opinion on this subject at all," he said...
...mostly impressions, in fact: the impression of a capable man, earnest, feeling a new responsibility now that he is at least partly private citizen. David Lilienthal will never be completely free to talk; but he is now able to say a lot more than in the past...