Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beloved Country is so earnest and virtuous that criticism of it seems almost improper--like throwing stones at a nun, say. But I am bound to say that it is a disappointing movie which hardly ever catches the strength and beauty of Alan Paton's novel of the same name from which it was taken...
...last week enough information about the new constitution had seeped into Buenos Aires to indicate that the President was in deadly earnest about his syndicalist state. Opening with the words: "This is a workers' state," the constitution established favored trade unionists, i.e., members of Perón's General Confederation of Labor, as the new aristocracy of the land. By terms of its Article 33, they will enjoy a heavily weighted vote in elections. Of the provincial chamber's 30 deputies, 15 will be chosen by the province's estimated 200,000 ordinary voters...
Couple of centuries ago a word-minded fellow name of Noah Webster gave a definition of "contest" as an "earnest struggle for superiority." The word "earnest," of course, implies that each contestant has a chance to defeat, or at least to upset, his opponent. But another fellow name of Bob Kiphuth rewrote the dictionary...
...people who maintain (in solemn earnest-not in joke...
Upstairs, Resident Dr. Paul Crowley began working up her case in earnest. "Looks like catatonic schiz to me," he said. "But until she comes to and we have a psychiatrist in-who knows? It could be a guilt-complex hysteria." He fed the girl emetic soap water, which she promptly vomited up. The second time, she came to, pleading, "Not again. Please, not again." Dr. Crowley entered her name on the roster of patients to be seen by a psychiatrist on Monday...