Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their demands was that women's suffrage was not enough. They demanded a constitutional amendment which declared: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex." The battle was joined when Iowa's earnest, white-haired Guy Gillette introduced the amendment on the floor of the Senate...
...neither an original thinker nor a canny leader, but he was a magnificent pamphleteer. In Boston he began publishing the Liberator, a propaganda paper championing abolition. In a dingy room in Merchants' Hall he set up an old press and printed his famous manifesto: "I am in earnest ... I will not retreat a single inch-AND I WILL BE HEARD." He was as good as his word. Though the Liberator never paid expenses or ever had more than 3,000 subscribers, its articles shook, scandalized and aroused the nation...
...Wayne's home life weren't enough, one of his men is an earnest youth who hates the Corps but feels he must carry on the tradition of his Colonel father, killed on The 'Canal. The young man's lack of adjustment causes all sorts of bad feeling, but is resolved in very moving fashion. Sergeant Wayne gets his just as Old Glory goes up over Mount Surabachi, and his squad takes a breather to read an unfinished letter he has been writing his little boy. The young man is so moved by this epistle that he forgets his neurosis...
Ohio State's young (37), earnest Junior Dean William S. Guthrie quoted figures designed to show that there was a growing shortage of doctors. In 1905 and in 1949, he said, the number of medical students in the U.S. was almost the same-though the population had all but doubled. Guthrie contended that the World War II speedup in medical colleges should be continued...
...Thou Shalt Not Kill' is a 'law of God' that convicts Dr. Sander of murder," cried Harvard's Anthropologist Earnest Hooton, "let us have done with such a savage and subhuman deity and substitute a God of mercy and loving-kindness...