Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold-war history. Around the world the rustlings and whisperings of regular diplomacy all but came to a halt while the chancelleries cocked their ears toward Moscow. In Moscow, oddly enough, there were no negotiations at all in the orthodox diplomatic sense, but there were loud, serious, deadly earnest debates about the resources and strengths of the West and Communism. "One reason for the length of the debates," cabled TIME Correspondent Charles Mohr from Moscow, "is that Khrushchev finds it hard to believe that he cannot top Nixon, and so he keeps trying. Nixon on his own part...
...Hoosier Butler's noisy rampage against what he feels is a too-moderate course by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn took a new turn. Paul Butler phoned Sam Rayburn for an appointment, then jogged up to the Capitol and spent an hour in earnest conversation with Rayburn and Johnson. There was little doubt that his action was in the nature of a peace pilgrimage that included a single serving of crow for a strangely silent Paul Butler...
...Crowd Watchers. Today's typical Capri visitor is not the Roman princeling or wealthy foreign eccentric of old; far more often, he is the earnest German tourist who has come over just for the day on the ferry from Naples (fare: 70?) wearing only shorts and sandals, carrying only a camera and a lunch box. And to meet the taste of the new invaders, the Capresi have converted the once-charming fishing village of Marina Grande into a boardwalk displaying cheap religious bibelots and tinny music boxes that wheeze out the saccharine strains of The Isle...
...made a lewd remark to a G.I. wife in a PX or pinched her bottom. The trouble was, said the colonel, that too often such women came in two categories-either "provocatively clad" or, if "less young and shapely, disgustingly clad." Last week the colonel clamped down in earnest. From now on, any serviceman's wife who tries to enter a public building on base will have her identity card "checked for appropriate follow-up action...
...sexual attraction to wit, for dramatic distillation; and I distill it for you." Thus the main plot of Man and Superman, a sort of Love's Labour's Won with woman as the laborer and man as the winnings; a "serio-comic love chase"; a nimble game in dead earnest of Higher Hide-and-Seek...