Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texans are 49% in earnest when they talk about their state as an independent country, allied with the U.S. And it is true that Texas is different from its sister states; but the difference is one of degree. Texas is the U.S.-only more...
...what his constituents expect of a Texas governor, but he is not the type known to the rest of the country as the professional Texan. His hats are apt to be more nearly five-gallon than ten, his drawl is under control, and his public manner is more earnest than hearty. He can even kid the Texas myth a little. In a recent radio interview with Bob Crosby, he said: "I'd like to say something serious now, something I want all the world to know and remember and something it gives me great pride to tell...
...McCarthy labeled as "dangerous to America" and "complete dupes." Yesterday the Boston Post indicated in an editorial that it would soon resurrect McCarthy's charges against him. The Post said it will dedicate "a lengthy editorial to Professor Chafee, whose past associations and views are worthy of the most earnest consideration...
Harvard's anthropologists are about to release a new, scholarly survey dealing with the people of Ireland--and if they are as wise as they are scholarly, they had better mind their manners. Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, who is given to saying brash things in prose and poetry at times, admits that he is approaching this one with plenty of soft answers in mind...
Boxers less wily than Walcott have no trouble hitting Rocky; he stumbles straight against their mitts. The poser is to hurt him. Hit hard, he merely frowns and keeps coming, and swinging, and missing. He windmills like an earnest apprentice, until sooner or later he lands one or two and becomes the brutal master. Then he drubs them. New England has not produced such a punisher since (in Vachel Lindsay's drumbeat lines...