Word: sober
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This promise of resurrection inspired new devotion in the church's sober flock of about 70 auto workers, teachers, small businessmen and housewives. They recruited ten new believers and expanded the church parking lot to handle the overflow crowds they expect when Gill returns. Since last August, especially devout members have been honored by appointment to a corps that keeps a prayer vigil in the church 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to await Gill's resurrection...
...constituent told Virginia Republican Caldwell Butler: "Any policy is better than none." Reports Ohio Republican Samuel Devine: "People tell me, 'Let's stop this bickering between the White House and Congress and get something done!' " The American public did not appear to be panicking; people were sober and subdued but still largely positive as they appraised their own and their country's future. "The mood isn't gloom and doom," says Norman Mineta, a freshman Democrat from Southern California. "The question always asked is how much and how long it is going to take...
...observer of last week's riots noted the "ecumenical characteristics" of the mob-meaning that its members appeared to range from the far left to the far right. That alone is a sober message for Velasco: namely, that he has managed to alienate Peruvians of every political leaning...
...revelation ("I perceive now that my unmarried teachers at Yale were probably less chaste than the rest of us.") And there are hints at what must be buried wells of real and sincere pain, but inevitably appear as trite, heart-on-sleeve banalities ("How many friends, drunk and sober, I must have failed in those days by being in the presence of their anguish and yet deaf and blind...
...leading candidate to succeed her husband. From her seat on the Politburo, she has wielded considerable power and was probably a major sponsor of the anti-Confucius campaign. But the military distrusts her, and the moderates hate her vengefulness and capriciousness. In China's current sober climate, Chiang Ching has become the butt of salacious jokes and comparisons with the notorious 7th century Empress Dowager Wu. At the recent congress she not only was denied the Ministry of Culture, which she coveted, but according to all reports did not address the delegates. When Mao dies, his wife...