Word: sober
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Omar N. Bradley, the. Army's calm, sober and battle-weathered Chief of Staff, is worried less about the imminence of war than by America's jitters-that sometimes take the form of fatalistic apathy-about war.* Last week General Bradley told Chicago's Economic Club...
...least official and marked the removal of the protective scaffolding. But by the time she is 18, the modern New York debutante is already a familiar denizen of the Stork Club and the" tabloids, and is capable of deciding at a glance whether her escort is sober enough to drive...
...Sober Penetration. Soon after the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japanese physicists sent messages...
...Legion's unofficial comportment was sober, its official conduct was the most irresponsible in years. After voting resolutions favoring U.M.T. a veto-less U.N., and public housing for veterans, the delegates kicked over the traces...
...highly esteemed civilization . . . destroys the very qualities which have produced it: initiative, independence, intellectual resourcefulness. A generation . . . born in confusion, suckled in tumult, reared with cars, radios, movies, comics and picture magazines, can hardly [grow up into] reflective, sober, well-rounded young people...