Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When he proclaimed the Second Coming at the World's Fair, he was unsympathetically bundled off to the city hospital for observation, a "purification" he cheerfully endured. Transferred to a state hospital, he was cruelly beaten for a supposed misdemeanor. "After that beating," said Mike, "I was more sane than insane." In a few weeks, without further treatment, he was released...
...young counsel to the U.S. peace delegation, John Foster Dulles saw the failure of Versailles at first hand. As chairman of the Federal Council of Churches' Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, he campaigned hard for sane internationalism. And as foreign affairs advisor to Thomas E. Dewey he approved Dumbarton Oaks. But last week Foster Dulles, at a Presbyterian conference in Brooklyn, sounded a sharp warning. Said...
...roommate caused the stir of the evening when he showed up with five (not two or three like any sane polygamist--but five) young ladies. He danced with each one in her rightful turn. We later interviewed the young ladies and asked what's the story...
Vermont's sane, usually unexcitable Warren R. Austin declared: "It would then be just another step until the nation reached a state of national socialism...
...safe and, for a Jap, a sane, solid way to build a reputation. The only trouble was that, no matter how safely an officer tried to set his course, there were obstacles-like calculating Spruance and wizened, air-wise Marc Mitscher. And they were not passive obstacles: they were closing around him like a tightening clamp. They were closing inexorably on the Empire where Shimada had worked so hard and dully to be a great naval captain...