Word: sober
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Under, a huge mob had collected of those who had taken the Green instead of Orange Line from North Station. The electrified crowd occupied the time with chants of "We're number One," while several zealots took the campaign right down to the tracks. One of the less-than-sober fans climbed out after his fall by calmly stepping on the third rail, to the shock and dismay of gasping onlookers. He was not hurt...
...that sense Garrison is the descendent of a long line of Southern political feeling. Despite his sober black suits, his erudition and his conspiracy mania, he is appealing, like generations of Southern politicians before him, to Southerners's fear of being controlled by a hostile, unsympathetic, and still foreign Northern nation...
...energy crisis may cause a permanent change in America's affluent way of life. But a more profound peril - at least in one sober, clear-eyed view - lies elsewhere. "In every crisis Americans have turned to drink," declares Mrs. Fred Tooze, president of the still flourishing, 250,000-member National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the foe of demon rum since 1874. "Liquor dealers admit that since the energy crisis began, the consumption of alcoholic beverages has greatly increased. The need for conserving gasoline may even enhance their 'take,' since people will remain home and drink...
...atmosphere of 1953 could only grow slowly anyway," he recruited readers from old P.M. and New York Compass subscription lists rather than attempt to mount an advertising campaign. Stone said in 1971 that he had figured only the paper's quality could sustain it, so he adopted a sober typography and straightforward tone. After eight cautious printers refused to help Stone publish his newsletter, he found two men who would. I.F. Stone's Weekly debuted...
...sacred mysteries of the Catholic faith by manipulating chromatic harmonies which build towards thrilling climaxes. He is grandiose and monumental, as the great baroque churches of Bavaria and Austria are grandiose and monumental. He seeks the feverish ecstasy of the visionary. Brahms, on the other hand, is a more sober, conservative writer, working from a close, personal religion, and with a style virtually baptized in a Protestant ethic of thorough, conscientious hard work. He is warm but never extravagant...