Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. When the men were out, the cupboard was bare, and Bill Price early began piecing out the family income by running errands and clerking nights in a store. At 16, when his father died suddenly, Bill had to go to work in earnest. He learned shorthand, earned $50 a month as a secretary by day, and by night went to Professor Dennis O'Connor's $25-a-month classes in math, geography, history, English and Latin. After three years he was able to pass exams to enter night law classes...
...Ziegeunerweisen. As Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Ezio Pinza, in a blond wig, swaggers off with the show by giving a lustily humorous performance and singing snatches from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Gounod's Faust, and a chorus of The Volga Boatman. These latter-day artists offer an earnest approximation of the originals. David Wayne, using a vaguely Russian accent, plays Hurok as a kind of uncommercially-minded wet nurse to a gang of temperamental darlings. Veteran Hurok himself, now 64 and one of the shrewdest showmen alive, would undoubtedly be the first to admit that he has done...
...Round 8, Gavilan tired of his cat & mouse tactics and went to work in earnest. The champion's slam-bang attack opened a cut under Davey's right eye. In Round 9, throwing bolos, uppercuts, hooks and crosses, Gavilan pounded Davey to the canvas three times, once clear through the ring ropes. Each time, Davey gamely got back on his feet, but it was clear that he was through for the night. When the bell sounded for Round 10, Davey sat in his corner, gagging from a bolo punch in the Adam's apple, unable to continue...
With the principal's blessing, Barbara launched an earnest campaign through high-income Shades Valley. In the parent-teacher associations of four elementary schools, she found receptive audiences. After listening to her testimony, parents of children who will soon enter Shades Valley High voted 512 to 96 to abolish the Greek-letter groups...
...show excitement, is such a picture of unruffled calm that his wife Agnes sometimes refers to him as "the Sphinx." Says Vance placidly: "My blood pressure is normal, and I expect to live to a ripe old age. You don't have to be excited to be earnest...