Word: earnestness
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...middle of December, winter came in earnest. A penetrating north wind swept the city with icy blasts. The window and door of my unheated cell rattled with each gust. I had on both my sweaters and a padded jacket, but still spasms of shivering shook my body. In the icy room, my breath made white, cloudy puffs, and I had to stamp my feet and rub my hands to bring blood to my toes and fingers. Something mysterious was happening outside. As winter turned to spring, I learned that Shanghai was in a constant state of upheaval...
...Sullivan and captain Jim Goffredo have forgotten them. But the three-point shooting of Wittman and Dale will prove too much for the defensively-challenged Crimson, which is last in the Ivies in field-goal percentage defense. Cornell by five, as the Big Red join the title hunt in earnest...
...Crimson list. Now, however, that career is over. After the game, Cusworth sat for the last time in front of his locker, its contents packed into a gym bag open at his feet, and faced the prospect of leaving school, and his teammates, to begin preparing in earnest for a future in professional basketball. “Putting the nametag in this bag is probably one of the hardest things I’ve done since I’ve been here,” Cusworth said. “It’s tough, very tough. I think it?...
Simon on first meeting seems more like an accountant than a comic wit. Although he can be a deft public performer, the private man is a thoughtful, earnest conversationalist, never a raconteur using companions as an audience. He realizes he is considered aloof even by those who know him best, and admits, "I'm always having to tell myself, 'Get back into the conversation.'" When he does get off a good line, it is a throwaway, almost sotto voce, and rarely with a stranger. Director Mike Nichols, who staged four of Simon's plays, recalls attending one in which...
...about politics. And how quickly new Labor leader Kevin Rudd has become a fixture in that conversation. Rudd, 49, has insinuated himself into the familiar backdrop of holidays?cricket, barbecues and bushfires?without, it seems, getting up people's noses. Few days pass without the hyperactive Queenslander making his earnest contribution, on radio or TV, to the issue of the moment. It's said that Rudd also took a short break. Even workaholics need a few days to shoot TV ads, strategize and catch up on recreational reading about monetary policy and political philosophy. With the country's workplaces...