Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small (5 ft. 6½ in.), earnest funnyman was born Aaron Chwatt, the son of an immigrant hat blocker. He got the name "Red Buttons" because of his flaming hair-now prematurely grey-and a bellhop uniform he wore on his first comedy job while he was still attending a Bronx high school. Before the surprising success of his new show, Buttons had made some eight or nine guest appearances on TV without causing any particular excitement ("My first spot was on the Milton Berle show four years ago. And now-think of it-I'm playing in competition...
Schroeder quoted Sparkman, "Let us never for one moment be fooled into thinking that we can depend on Republican help to defeat these measures (civil rights)." "And the earnest Democrats want to make him president of the Senate," Schroeder added...
...Batterymarch office was crowded with young secretaries briskly typing. In the back of the room ward leaders sat at their desks, giving earnest instructions to their lieutenants. Robert Kennedy's ofice was in a far corner, and his secretary told me to wait. After a half an hour, she called my name. "I hope," said Kennedy, after I introduced myself, "that you are going to support my brother." "We may," I lied, "but some Republicans on the paper are worried that he's a little too liberal. I've been trying to find that Independents for Kennedy group...
...failure of this Administration to deal effectively with the Communist threat," said Nixon, in earnest and subdued tones, is the "greatest issue in the election." To demonstrate the failure, Nixon retold the story of the Hiss case: Whittaker Chambers' first accusation, the confrontation of the two men, Alger Hiss's admission, after twelve days of denial, that he had known Chambers after all. Nixon outlined the Administration's attempts to "cover up" the case, including an executive order by President Truman, forbidding "the FBI ... to cooperate with the Committee [on Un-American Activities] in its investigation...
...delighted; the classification was just the thing to make Reporter Reed's daily column of draft news seem more authentic. But when weeks passed and Reed was not inducted, City Editor Johnston came to the conclusion that the column was growing monotonous. At Johnston's urging, earnest Reporter Reed asked his board for immediate induction, only to be told that he would have to wait his turn. No man to be intimidated by a bureaucratic decision, City Editor Johnston called up the state draft boss at Austin and got Reporter Reed called to duty forthwith...