Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...port call was a symbolic victory for Washington in the diplomatic war of nerves now emerging in the Pacific between the superpowers. The contest began in earnest 15 months ago, when Moscow secured fishing rights to the tuna-rich waters of Kiribati, a tiny 33-island former British colony in the South Pacific. Since then, much has happened to heighten Washington's jitters. Last June, Vanuatu, formerly the British-French territory of New Hebrides, opened diplomatic relations with Moscow, following the lead of Fiji and three other Pacific island states. Vanuatu is currently negotiating a pact with the Soviets that...
...spectrum, postmodern sweetness still has baby-boom adherents. The cupola- topped shingle-style studio that Mark Simon designed for a Long Island beachfront is something of a contortionist folly: it jams all the moves of a mansion into a building the size of a gazebo. But in its earnest eagerness to please, the little building is more cute than contentious. John Syvertsen has envisioned a Wisconsin lake cottage as a kind of friendly folk pavilion: the tin chimney, latticework and exposed Y trusses satisfy the middle-class Arcadian ideal, while the broad stairs and hipped roof make the cottage nearly...
...reminded of Dukakis as I watched first term Sen. Slade Gorton(R-Wash.) go down to defeat on Tuesday night. Gorton is earnest, straight and wants to do it right. He is honest to a fault, it appears...
Both the Crimson and the Black and White rowing programs will strike up their collegiate racing schedules in earnest come spring...
...production is conservative, which is not surprising. Allegorical reinterpretation, the rage in Europe, strikes no sympathetic chords at Lincoln Center, where an earnest conventionality prevails. Schenk and Schneider- Siemssen staged the Met's highly regarded 1977 Tannhauser, a glowing, romantic evocation of the Thuringian countryside, with a sharp eye for naturalistic detail, and their Die Walkure is in the same tradition. Hunding's rude hut in Act I is an enormous wooden lodge, with an imposing tree growing in its center, while the landscapes of Acts II and III are rocky and forbidding. They are not so much sets...