Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war, Grüber was appointed pastor of the Marienkirche, the oldest undestroyed church in Berlin's inner city. Several of the men he had known in concentration camps became top officials in the Communist government, and they trusted the earnest, red-faced man whose religious principles had led him to the same ugly places as their political convictions had led them. In 1949 Pastor Grüber was appointed plenipotentiary from the Evangelical Church to the Communist government at Pankow...
After lunch at the White House Ike and Sir Winston had had two hours of earnest discussion and were ready for a picture-taking session in the sun-drenched Rose Garden. As they sat in a love seat, flanked by Dulles and Eden, Churchill seemed in good health, compared to his appearance last January at Bermuda. At one point they started some small talk so that the pictures would give an impression of amiable discourse. This is what they said: President: Did you bring your paints? Prime Minister: No, I didn...
Food Like Home. When the visitors arrived a fortnight early, the little town of Henley shrugged off its normal absent-minded air and pitched in to help them train. At first the Russians-nine assorted coaches and chaperones, a chubby lady physician and 23 earnest oarsmen-were split into two groups, one to reside at the Jolly Waterman, a tavern about a mile from the river, the other at Fair Mile, twelve-room Victorian residence of Reginald Pearce, a Henley jeweler. Said...
With a few rare exceptions, tough, quickwitted Don Camillo wins each engagement over earnest, bumbling Mayor Peppone and his comrades. But who wins the elections and continues to preside over the municipal affairs of Don Camillo's flock? Communist Peppone and the party. This is Don Camillo's-and Italy's-dilemma...
Doctrinal Opposition. Ngo Dinh Diem (pronounced no-din-zim), a young-looking 53, was the son of a grand chamberlain of the Annamite court. Earnest, dedicated, a devout Roman Catholic, Diem graduated top of his class in Viet Nam's School of Administration, worked his way through the French-run Vietnamese civil service, and was appointed Interior Minister at 32, in one of France's early "Vietnamese nationalist governments." But Diem resigned two months later, decrying French hypocrisy and bumble, vowing to lead an ascetic life in doctrinal opposition to the colonial power...