Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jean Peters), but he cannot prove anything, and neither can the police. , In a desperate attempt to keep the woman from poisoning his brother's other child, Gotten poisons her first-with a tablet of strychnine he found in her own aspirin bottle. Unfortunately, Actor Gotten looks so earnest and bashful at the climax that the audience is apt to wonder whether, after all, he is involved in a matter of life & death or whether he is simply expressing a mortal longing to know the shortest way to the taffrail...
Nixon's earnest, unsung diligence has won him a lot of respect, even among people who not long ago were damning or disparaging him. Last week the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, once ferociously anti-Nixon though pro-Ike, editorially conceded it might have been wrong in thinking that the country would get "awfullv tired" of the "mawkish" and "disagreeably pushing" Vice President: "Some better stuff in Nixon than we recognized took command . . . With iron discipline, he seems to have dedicated himself to quiet, patient and unseen aid and comfort to his chief and his party . . . Perhaps...
...Show (Tues. & Thurs., 7:30 p.m., NBCTV) tries gamely to flesh out its hillbilly tunes with production numbers in the Hit Parade manner. Billed as "the Tennessee Plowboy," unsponsored Eddy Arnold strums a guitar, beats out songs like Moonlight & Roses in country rhythm, and gets informal support from an earnest, shiny-faced trio called the Dickens Sisters...
This week the U.S., quietly and in measured tones, is in the midst of a constitutional great debate. Ohio's junior Senator, Republican John William Bricker, touched it off by proposing a constitutional amendment. Its main aim: to restrict the making of U.S. domestic law by international treaty. Earnest Lawyer Bricker argues that his amendment would plug "a dangerous constitutional loophole." Members of President Eisenhower's Cabinet argue that it would "damage [the] balance of power" between Congress and the President and "completely hamstring" the conduct of foreign relations, and Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley calls...
...University of Wisconsin, he got a job as janitor at the Christ Presbyterian Church in Madison. Its pastor was the Rev. George E. Hunt, a smoking and drinking, social-gospel liberal who was something new in young Leslie Bechtel's experience. Hunt took a liking to the earnest young janitor, and set out to prove that he could do more for humanity as a minister than as a lawyer. "One day he got me to agree to a debate," Bechtel remembers. "The topic was to be 'Where can you get more out of life...