Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surrounded by the lush abundance of California's San Joaquin Valley live the 300 Negro men, women and children of Teviston. Most of the family heads went to the valley from Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas some 20 years ago as migrant farm workers, pinched their dollars, and with earnest pride bought their own land on a sandy alkali flat and called it home. The neighboring town and country were nourished by huge water projects and irrigation systems. Other valley towns thrived, but Teviston never amounted to much because it had no water supply of its own. To get their...
...writing staff emerges periodically from the ivory tower to gather firsthand information, plant ideas, and lobby for the Star's causes. Last month, alarmed about a rising traffic death rate, the Star ran a lead editorial deploring the carnage, then sent Editorial Writer James W. Scott out for earnest conferences with Police Chief Bernard Brannon and other authorities. Result: a new 36-man traffic detail and a series of frontpage editorials backing up the police department's campaign...
...corn grows even taller. Annie is also the girl who finally got a crack at Broadway and became the hottest ticket in town on her first try. And finally-most typical cliche of the times-she is the girl who is now trying to find herself in long, earnest hours of psychoanalysis...
Into the reception room at the Vatican one day last week filed 500 members of the Union of Italian Catholic Jurists. The association of judges, lawyers and law professors had just closed its tenth annual convention with earnest discussions on the convention theme: freedom of the press. Now the delegates, having kept an open mind on the subject-no resolutions were passed-sought the counsel of Pope John XXIII. "It is on this problem, so basic in modern society," said Italian Prime Minister Antonio Segni, who led the delegates in, "that we have come together here to listen with filial...
...school around the world. Two years of teaching high school math in Columbus (while sitting on Jaeger Machine's board of directors) convinced him. Last year Jaeger earned a teacher's degree (Ed. M.) at Harvard, went to work setting up his globe-trotting school in earnest. Purpose: "To make students aware of world problems and motivate them to do something...