Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began gobbling up long putts in earnest on the back side, holding out for birdies on 12, 14, 16, and 17. On the 389-yard 12th, he needed only a sand wedge into the green after catching his drive flush. On the par-three 16th, Fitzgibbons sent his tee shot skittering just past the flagstick on the pocket handkerchief of a green and proceeded to roll in the comeback putt...
...generosity that could inform Hemingway's writing when he stopped beating his breast. But except for George C. Scott in the leading role, it attempts to do this without anything approaching Hemingway's gifts, tarnished and erratic though they were toward the last. It remains an attempt-earnest and labored. After watching it, one is tempted to say: Come back, Howard Hawks...
...enthusiastic, rhythmic handclapping by the audience, was a song called "Solidarity Forever Rock," sung to the tune of the rock 'n roll song "Locomotion." It seemed to be a light-hearted self-parody of the radical leftist style. Yet troupe members assured me afterwards that they were in total earnest...
...Wurf and the other union chiefs at the AFL-CIO meeting, the play seemed as earnest as the work. The labor leaders had converged on Bal Harbour with their customary large supporting casts. Teachers Union Chief Albert Shanker, for example, arrived with his wife and three children. Other union bosses brought along legions of aides, among them their legislative advisers, public relations assistants and political operatives, as well as a secretary...
Cash Machines. Such economies are making newspapers so profitable -and thus so desirable as investment properties-that prices will probably continue to soar. Industry analysts concede that $125 million for the Star and Times may sound high, but add that the stodgy, bland and earnest dailies should become immensely profitable under firmer management from Capital Cities; besides, as in most U.S. cities, the papers have no real competition. "It is extremely difficult and expensive to start a new newspaper," says Otis Chandler. "Thus the ones that are in place and going are even more valuable." This is particularly true since...