Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Commander Mark Clark dispatched a letter to North Korea's Kim II Sung and Red China's Peng Teh-huai. asking for resumed truce talks "in an earnest endeavor to achieve an early armistice." The U.N. Command is a military command, he said, and it does not control the sovereign South Korean government. By agreement, it is supposed to control the ROK armed forces; therefore, the Rhee government broke an agreement when ROK soldiers, acting on their government's secret instructions, aided and abetted the escape of 25,000 North Korean prisoners. But, Clark insisted...
...Interlopers." On Tuesday morning, while most of his fellow Justices were packing their vacation bags, Douglas had listened in his chambers to two sets of lawyers: the Rosenbergs' regular counsel, and a couple of earnest, frenetic newcomers to the case, Fyke Farmer of Nashville and Daniel Marshall of Los Angeles...
...started Tide in 1927 as a free, adless magazine to give admen news and views about their own business and about TIME, the magazine was sold. The buyer was Young & Rubicam President Raymond Rubicam, who changed it into a trade weekly which went after paid circulation and advertising in earnest. Gradually he turned Tide over to its employees, who sold some of their shares to Manhattan's Modern Industry magazine two years ago. But the competition from robust Printers' Ink (circ. 23,793) and Advertising Age (circ. 24,201) was tough to buck. Four months ago, its owners...
...covering letter, President Eisenhower made it clear that he would grant no further tariff increases to any industry except in rare instances. Said he: "International conditions . . . demand our most earnest efforts to maintain friendly cooperation with other countries of the free world . . . Such cases . . . must be carefully reviewed together with all the possible international implications...
Citation: "Worthy scion of a noble family, earnest and reverent Jew who has constantly upheld the ethical teachings of his ancestral faith and has striven consistently to strengthen the intellectual and social foundations of our country...