Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Colonel Nickerson himself took the stand, he delivered an earnest lecture on the Army's cherished conviction that it should have the right to operate missiles beyond the 200-mile-range limit laid down last fall (TIME, Dec. 10) by Defense Secretary Wilson. Then he had a few words for the Pentagon high command: "Their basic interests, the future they're seeking for themselves, is outlined by the money and jobs they expect to get in the aircraft industry. This is especially true in the Air Force...
...common Liberal reaction: "I never dreamed everybody else would do what I did!" Among the irritants was External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson's we-know-best refusal to answer the crowding questions about the suicide of Ambassador Herbert Norman in Egypt (see box). The voters saw in earnest John Diefenbaker a way to unload .the entrenched government. Riled at the Liberal assumption that only Liberals could competently rule, they decided that the time for a change had come...
...Earnest Yearnings. Baring-Gould has more than 130 books to his credit. His sermons alone fill more than 20 volumes. He wrote a 16-volume Lives of the Saints and a weighty treatise on the Origin and Development of Religious Belief that moved Prime Minister Gladstone to award him a crown living (an ecclesiastical appointment at the dispensation of the government). He also wrote 30 novels plus stories and character sketches; he was an active archaeologist, and he busily searched out and transcribed old country songs and ballads, e.g., Widdecombe Fair. He was a staunch High-churchman; there...
...foundation goes about its own business of dispensing millions from its hushed, grey-carpeted headquarters in a sleek new office building on Madison Avenue. There a staff of 20 educators, 17 former government workers, twelve former businessmen, eight journalists and two lawyers pore over projects with an earnest and refreshingly optimistic determination to do what they can for the world. These projects can emerge in various ways-from a casual conversation at a cocktail party, from a request by some scholar or university, or from some great scheme cooked up by the staffmen themselves. All projects of over...
...biggest dailies, the Labor-owned Daily Herald (circ. 1,653,997) and the Independent-Liberal News Chronicle (1,441,438), were desperately discussing a marriage of convenience; three smaller newspapers had already gone under in the past seven months. Nor were dailies alone in their troubles. London's earnest left-wing Sunday Reynolds' News (516,445) was being kept alive by Labor-Cooperative Movement subsidies; Britain's biggest weekly magazine, Picture Post, which had a peak circulation of 1,750,000 in 1939, last month died of journalistic arteriosclerosis...