Word: sober
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carry Nation. After a brief decline, Wichita boomed again in the late 1880s, this time as a grain market and milling center. During harvest, carts and wagons loaded with wheat lined its streets in columns ten blocks long. Sober homesteaders built schools and churches instead of taverns, and Carry Nation carried her cause into the local saloons. The discovery of large oil reserves in 1915 produced another upswing and catapulted Wichita into the 20th century, attracting men like Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna and Lloyd Stearman, who turned the city into the "air capital of America...
...publisher's sober side appealed to Wichita's pillars, it was his maverick streak that helped attract a young and capable staff to the Sun. Editorial Consultant Richard Crocker, 36, who oversees a stable of seven reporters, is on leave from his editing job at the Washington Post. Investigative Reporter Randy Brown, 34, contributed to the Omaha Sun's Pulitzer-prizewinning exposé of Boys' Town. Former Beacon Copy Chief Les Anderson, 25, was lured away from the Ridder operation along with other talented but disgruntled writers. "I was turning into a vegetable," he says. "There...
...showed no difficulty in talking. Propped up in bed, he discussed Ford's upcoming visit to Japan and the diplomatic travels of Henry Kissinger. At one point, Ford asked Nixon: "Did you have a good night?" Nixon replied: "None of the nights are too good." A sober Ford emerged from the visit to tell newsmen: "Obviously, he's a very sick man. But I think he's coming along well...
...major cities. In Washington, a pall of pessimism hung over the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Representatives of more than 120 nations listened attentively to cataclysmic predictions that they would have dismissed immediately a year or two ago. The atmosphere was such that sober, responsible people from Beirut to New York were ready to believe that it was no longer impossible that one or more Western powers might in some dire future contemplate military intervention in the Persian Gulf to secure control of petroleum reserves. There were even unconfirmed stories in the Middle East...
...that good cooperation between the French and German governments is a necessary precondition for the progress of European integration. But even if people are friends, this does not mean that they can compromise the national interest of their people. Monsieur Giscard d'Estaing is a very sober man, not given to great speechmaking, more given to practical and concrete results. And in some ways I may match this attitude...