Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, all these efforts have come too late. Though 400 inoculators have been at work since November, they reached only 300,000 out of 4,000,000 people in five months. One reason: the money for the necessary hypodermic syringes just never showed up. When the epidemic struck in earnest, five of the city's 22 ambulances had been condemned as useless, and ten more were under repair. Only one driver was on duty at a time to answer calls for help...
...agreement on disarmament, on space control, and on the Middle East would go far towards reducing the danger of open conflict and healing many sore spots of American foreign and domestic policy. But until an atmosphere and fundamental agreement conducive to further negotiation appears, no amount of discussion, however earnest and diplomatic, will result in any significant solution...
...long-range verbal combat between the President and the House Armed Services Committee over the Administration's defense reorganization plan rattled into a third, shell-pocked week. Into the legislative no man's land this time came the starred, earnest members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, each subordinate to the Commander in Chief, each a stout defender of his own military service, each urged to unburden himself to Georgia's cagey Democrat Carl Vinson and his 37-man battle group...
...Firstborn (by Christopher Fry), begun in 1938, was first staged in 1948 at the Edinburgh Festival. A stiffly earnest play, it is laid in Egypt and centered in Moses. With the Pharaoh persecuting the Jews, a Moses already estranged from the palace of his upbringing turns wholly to the people of his birth. In the conflict, Pharaoh's young son Rameses sympathizes with the oppressed: but when the firstborn in every Egyptian family is struck down, the humane royal firstborn perishes with the rest...
...conclusion we would like to say that the CRIMSON's editorial assault does serve to make us aware that we in the Agency Corporation, in our earnest effort to respect the concerns of the Harvard Square merchants, have perhaps failed to develop a comparable concern for, and good relationships with, other student organizations in the Harvard community which are dependent on commerce. The Agency Corporation, we now clearly realize for the first time, is different from other student organizations in that it does have a special relationship with the Student Employment Office and an active and interested Board of Directors...