Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Policies: Loves his job, and has turned down a better one (Defense) to keep it. Has outgrown, though he has not found it necessary to repudiate, his earlier views, has won the confidence of many Commonwealth figures as an administrator of liberal intentions. His parliamentary manner is languid, sophisticated, earnest. Inheriting many messes, he has cleaned up some, e.g., the reinstatement of the exiled Kabaka of Buganda. Having fostered West Indian federation, Malayan self-rule, Gold Coast nationhood and Maltese integration, he has run into deep difficulty over Cyprus and Singapore, where his troubles are increased by the dictates...
Activity will begin in earnest this coming fall when Nivola assumes his full time duties. The post is not entirely a new one, but the director will be acting in an official capacity for the first time...
...devout and earnest Christian prayer is worth more in the healing of the human mind and heart than all the bunk-shooting of all the psychoanalysts in the world...
...Minister Amer. an earnest, soft-spoken farmer boy from the Upper Nile, is the No. 2 man of Egypt's revolutionary regime, the closest confidant of Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser, and the leader who would assume command of the allied armies of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen should war break out with Israel...
...roadblock. At one point the police appeared to have won the day, but as soon as they left the scene, the students began swarming back into Locust Street, and when the police reappeared, began throwing eggs and stones again. This time the police went after the rioters in earnest. Result: 116 students landed in the clink, and 28, charged with everything from disturbing the peace to assault and battery, were held for the grand jury...