Word: sober
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, the list omits much of what working Presidents really read. Teddy Roosevelt gobbled two books a day on almost anything. F.D.R. doted on detective stories, Ike went for Westerns, and Kennedy has made Ian Fleming famous. The new library offers no such surcease. It is sober, scholarly, and just a bit grey...
...court, two cops testified that Martinis seemed drunk when arrested. But three other cops said that Martinis appeared to be sober as a judge-or at least a judge's son. During the four-day hearing, the prosecution's case was badly weakened by the cops' conflicting testimony-so conflicting that a grand jury opened an investigation into the possibility of perjury. Once the evidence was in, the three judges deliberated only five minutes before they found Martinis innocent of all charges...
...testimony and that of the two persons accompanying him in the car differed substantially. Yes, they probably had been going slowly, for Newton is a "speed trap" and Negroes are arrested and fined heavily for "speeding" or drunken driving when they are crawling along the road or even absolutely sober. But the three Negroes testified that Ware was sound asleep at the time that the car was stopped...
...only topic of conversation in Britain. A show of his portraits, including those of such celebrities as Sophia Loren, Prince Philip, Mandy, and Canada's ex-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, was a near sellout, raised an astonishing $25,000 for Ward's defense. This week a sober-looking jury of eleven mostly middle-aged men and one woman will decide whether talented Stephen Ward is a pimp and a procurer or just a jolly bohemian...
...Communist Party, and pledged to go after bands of pro-Castro terrorists roaming the backhands. Next year's presidential election was canceled, but the military officers promised to call a convention to draft a new constitution "when opportune." The U.S. would probably recognize the junta. But whether sober soldiers, governing by martial law, would run the country better than a tipsy but amiable Arosemena was still to be proved...