Word: sober
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whatever it is, is to enable people to acquire moral values. However, he rarely indicates what values he has in mind. But once exams start, all the nonsense is forgotten. Frivolous questions like "Do you need anything from the Square?" evoke not trivial requests for cookies or soap but sober, serious replies, like "Yes, the Monarch Notes for The Red and the Black." And as students settle down to serious work, Harvard, too, turns to serious business-administering the grades so essential to rational decision-making by law schools and banks...
...Philadelphia magazine published a "Survival Guide to the Next Depression." U.S. News & World Report, which is hardly trendy or sensational, recently examined the likelihood of another 1929-style crash. The cover line, "What a Depression Is Really Like-Scenes from the 1930s," was a bit alarming for the sober story inside. In fact, economists generally agree that a return to the horrors of the '30s-when unemployment hit 25% as measured then (it is now 7.1%) and industrial production dropped by 53% (it is now down 4.3%)-is not remotely possible...
What whales and their dolphin kin will not declare, this extraordinary book celebrates. It is a collection, really an orchestration, of appreciative views of the great creatures. Sober scientific articles and elegiac poems, naturalists' reports and scholars' musings, pencil drawings and underwater photographs jumble together, but all gently point to the possibility that whales are geniuses. The conclusion, of course, is unproved, yet most readers are likely to be convinced of its plausibility. Those with a mystical bent may even end up agreeing with Melville that if God ever returns to this planet, he would come...
...sudden, sharp rise in oil prices inflamed all sorts of problems, increasing government controls, intensifying nationalism and calling into question the future of free economies. People were gripped with the fear that events had overtaken their ability?or their government's ability?to cope. Otherwise sober men spoke of extreme solutions: repudiation of international debts, massive currency devaluations, the suspension of parliamentary government, even military intervention in the producing countries...
...colonial virtues of "use it up, wear it out; make it do, or do without" are back in style. Metalworking, canning, weaving and bread baking are becoming the sober and necessary pursuits of the common citizen...