Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communist forces have grabbed more than a dozen outposts from the U.N. since truce talks resumed in earnest five weeks ago. When U.S. troops were attacked they defended their positions well, but eventually withdrew, and launched few counterattacks. One U.S. commander explained why. Said he: "How would I ever explain it if I lost 50 men trying to take back an outpost the day the armistice was signed...
...escape if, unhappily, a new war were to break out. That is the fundamental error of the so-called 'neutralist' thesis." But he sounded pretty neutralist himself; he promised to submit a plan (unspecified) to the Bermuda conference for "lightening the load" in Indo-China. He was earnest about ratification of the European Defense Community Treaty, but hinted that defeat on this point would not cause him to dissolve parliament. He advocated a cut in rearmament together with a planned investment program calculated to stimulate production and halt unemployment. He promised continued close relations with...
...support Stevenson because his views are a matter of earnest, intelligent thought and his record a matter of its honest application. He has shucked liberalism of its blind dogmatism and left only what is good. . . . Many thought it would be Eisenhower who would freshen up American politics, but he has only added to its staleness. . . . By making rapprochements (with Jenner and McCarthy), Eisenhower has strained the theory of political unity to the point of dissolution...
...make a suggestion, from a few years of daily watch on the University scene, it seems that the traditions and principles guiding the University have changed very little in a hundred, to say nothing of twenty-five years. There is still a premium put on hard, honest and earnest pursuit of truth, to wherever it may lead. There is still a healthy respect for ideas, a vicious competition between them, and a realization that professors are not supermen with super-human responsibilities, but just people, with all the rights and foibles of same. As revered in the lull...
...earnest doctor warned that "Western Civilization . . . is at a point where it may cease to exist," slammed students for their timidity, rapped Communists and Clergy alike, and made certain "suggestions." Perhaps the most interesting of these suggestions was one to have students investigate those Congressional investigators "who have unjustly injured teacher or student. Expose fully what they, too, have done," he exhorted. "There are thousands of American students. This campaign would be an easy one. If the PAST of Teachers can be investigated, investigate the PAST of the ones doing the injury...