Word: sober
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Constitutional prerogatives as an individual. When I got out, I discovered that the Administration had made many of the changes I was concerned about: the movement from the atmosphere of the Crusades to that of the Congress of Vienna, from religious fanaticism to Metternich." In keeping with the sober realism of many of the P.O.W.s, he makes no claims for himself beyond those of common sense. "I do not particularly care for retroactive heroism...
...Whether with black coffee or enforced abstinence, sobering up an intoxicated alcoholic is a slow process that usually takes anywhere from eight to 48 hours. Now a team of Lynn, Mass., emergency-room physicians has found a way to do the job faster. Drs. Louis Kunian, James Wasco and Lawrence Hulefeld of Lynn Hospital report in Emergency Medicine that intravenous infusions of fructose, a sugar found in fruit, can sober up a drunk with unusual speed. However the fructose works-the doctors speculate that it may inhibit alcohol's effects on the nervous system -the sugar is undoubtedly efficient...
...should beware of precedent. More than one idle brain-storm has turned into a sober reality in this age of anarchic reason, when ignorance is equated with learning, vulgarity with democracy, insolence with honesty, loafing with labor, and crime with self-expression. Nothing is too outrageous to be taken seriously by politicians, sociologists, and even the academic fraternity...
...Wooden is a graying, sober-sided eminence who imparts what one player calls the "respect factor." Who, after all, could doubt a man who is a friend of Lawrence Welk, who admires the writings of Zane Grey and St. Francis of Assisi? Wooden is also a deacon in the First Christian Church of Santa Monica. He reads the Bible daily. He neither smokes nor drinks and will not tolerate profanity. On occasion, he will partake of a "Pat Boone Special" (ginger ale with a dash of grape juice). His strongest expletive is "Goodness gracious sakes alive!" And after a tough...
...fiction or the turn of real events, the narrative has taken its readers for a bizarre ride. The popularity of the first book can be explained in part by the fascination with psychedelic drugs which peaked near the time of its publication. The accounts of supernatural events told in sober, unadorned prose were a welcome addition to the body of mystical literature...