Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then that Saud began his visit in earnest. Ike and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles escorted him to the guest quarters at Blair House and took their leave. After a private luncheon, the King paid his first state visit to the White House...
...read four or five pages." (Now he bones up on the Rand McNally Atlas and the World Almanac before his sessions on the air.) One weekend in his teens, he picked up the Bible and read it through. He feels, however, that he never read in earnest until he decided to try for a Ph.D. in English literature. He systematically read his way through the Columbia library stacks on the subject, averaging 20 books a week for two years...
Matinee Theater (Fri. 3 p.m., NBC). Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Hermione Gingold...
Rojas made good, or at least made a good try, on all the dictated measures. To get the trade debt paid, he fired the unlucky Minister of Finance who had sanctioned excessive military purchases, and sent into the job a bright young banker named Luis Morales Gomez. In an earnest television speech, the President denied any undue enrichment in office. The press in Bogota is freer than it has been in years. The assembly has duly debated. And the offending Third Force was unceremoniously junked, pleasing Cardinal Luque, who says: "Our relations with the government are cordial-for the time...
...five o'clock every morning and put in three to four miles of roadwork. He also worked out daily in Jenson's gym. After a year-long layoff to practice a different kind of fighting in Korea, Gene got his pro career under way in earnest. He came to New York last week, winner of 37 out of 40 fights, 20 by knockouts...