Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scuffle was part of a deadly earnest battle between De Gasperi's government and its powerful Communist opposition (128 members). An election is coming with spring; the Demo-Christians expect to win by a hair (Italy is the only nation in Western Europe where the Communists have gained strength since 1948). Narrow margins might be tolerated in England, where the opposition is democratic; but could Italian democracy survive and effectively govern if the Communists really controlled Parliament...
...earnest Batchelder disciple, Grubbs means to keep Loomis as it is-from its comparatively low price tag ($1,375 for boarders, $250 for day students) to its policy of making every boy, rich or poor, wait on table and clean his own room. The whole idea, says Grubbs, is to turn out boys who will be ready to "stand up and be counted. We don't pass the buck to the colleges. It is our role to bring boys to the highest degree of maturity possible." All this is just what the Loomis founders wanted-"to train boys...
Died. William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, 86, tub-thumping Prohibitionist, lecturer on the evils of liquor and presidential candidate on the Prohibition ticket (82,000 votes) in 1932; in Glendale, Calif. Vice President of the Georgia Anti-Saloon League, he went to Congress from Georgia in 1919, served four terms in the House. At the age of 72, he was ordained a Baptist minister and continued his attack on liquor from the pulpit, this year completed a lecture tour in 22 states and seven European countries...
Next day London newspapers were full of Dr. Helai. Not bothering to conceal their shock, they quoted him at length, and one carefully dusted its hands of his conclusions. Warned the News Chronicle, in an earnest footnote: "Doctors agree that opium eating or smoking is definitely harmful for Western people...
Eisenhower reminisced: "Coast to coast ... I saw the faces of tens of thousands of eager, earnest, friendly Americans. The thought kept recurring . . . what tremendous deeds can be done for America through the unity, through the united will, of all these people...