Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...football season over, the House Plan began in earnest. House Plan Unit No. 1 was named Lowell House, after the then President of Harvard; House Plan Unit No. 2 was named Dunster House, after the first President. Coolidge, a mathematician, who bore a rather striking resemblance to President Lowell, would head Lowell House; Greenough, an English professor, would head Dunster. Out of disgust for the group's recent plans, and to avoid any confusing of duties, Coolidge resigned his membership in the Watch and Ward Society the "arbitrators of citizens' morals." The Houses would be Georgian in design, the dining...
Canada's election campaign raced toward voting day on June 10 with seemingly little doubt-according to pollsters -that Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent's Liberals would extend their 22-year reign. But the Tory opposition party, aroused by earnest Prairie Lawyer John Diefenbaker, threatened to walk off with a sizable chunk of the comfortable Liberal majority in the House of Commons...
...White House did not even need to count its mail to know that the President's save-the-budget TV message was the closest thing to a political flop that Ike has ever had. Most perceptive editorial writers agreed with what he said ("earnest and impressive," said the often-critical Washington Post and Times Herald). But most also thought that he was far too late in saying it. "He should have moved when Secretary Humphrey made his incredible [curl your hair] criticism," said the pro-budget Atlanta Constitution. "Meanwhile, the enemies took possession of the field and established themselves...
Total Threat. "I earnestly be" lieve that this defense budget represents . . . the proper dividing line between national danger on the one hand and excessive expenditure on the other," he said the next night on TV. "If it is materially cut, I believe the country would be taking a needless gamble ... To this kind of problem I have devoted most of my life. I repeat my earnest belief that the estimate in the budget for our military forces, atomic energy and stockpiling . . . represents a defense program which is as nearly accurate, in present circumstances, as it is humanly possible to make...
...Parker one evening offered to "do a gig" on his alto sax to square a bar debt. The Bird died before he could make good, but the Bohemia nevertheless plastered its walls with record jackets and went jazz. A favorite hangout of off-duty jazzmen, it also attracts the earnest and informed young jazz buffs in heavy spectacles and flamboyant shirts who sit for hours nursing drinks and intently following the music. After midnight, when the air is blue with smoke and the beer drinkers at the bar are vibrating with the music. visiting jazzmen are apt to move...