Word: sober
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public interest continued, as well as rumors about what really had happened. According to one theory, Kennedy delayed reporting the accident so that he could sober up. Another was that he had talked Gargan into taking the rap but changed his mind the next morning...
...Regulations. Inflation has contributed significantly to students' newly sober attitude toward higher education. A year's average tuition and room and board at a private college costs about $3,200; at many schools the total is close to $5,000. "One of the first things the students do is look for part-tune jobs," says Eileen Roberson, director of student employment at Simmons College in Boston. Among the most common jobs: waiting on table, manning switchboards and doing research for professors...
...friend and former law partner of Herbert Kalmbach, I have visited him at the correctional facility at Lompoc. It is no country club. Mr. Kalmbach may have served his entire sentence by the time sober study dictates immunity for all other defendants. This would be not only an unequal application of justice but a travesty. May I suggest immediate parole of all imprisoned Watergate-related individuals until the issue of Mr. Nixon's prosecution is settled...
...clientele is generally sober in both senses of the word, with an emphasis on young professional types...
...reader is meant to see the lifted eye brow and to smile. Then he is meant to see the sober truth of the statement be hind its mockery. Then the mockery be hind that sobriety and so on. What lies deeper, the mockery or the truth? It is a rare comic writer who can raise the question, and Kundera...