Word: sober
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation came to a head when a menacing dealer forced his way into Eric's mother's home and demanded that she pay him the $200 her son owed him. Shortly thereafter, Eric entered a rehabilitation program called Pride. After four months, he emerged shaken but sober. He has dropped all his crack-smoking friends but worries about temptation. "Coke is still all around me," he says...
...tenants made overtures to the organization at a local mosque several weeks ago, and the Muslims responded with around-the-clock patrols. Known for the fiery black nationalism preached by their leader Louis Farrakhan, the Muslims have transformed the complex. Since the appearance of the guards in their trademark sober suits and bow ties, the drug dealers have made themselves scarce...
...gray walls and imitation-marble columns gave the courtroom a properly sober atmosphere. At precisely 2 p.m. last Wednesday, five black-robed judges walked slowly to the podium and brought the proceedings to order. The prosecutor's opening statement set forth an explosive agenda: the alleged complicity of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim in Nazi war crimes during World War II. "I do not represent that his is the hand that holds the smoking pistol," said the attorney. "War crimes were committed by those men whom Waldheim served. But there will be no doubt, I submit, in your minds that Waldheim...
...opponents, Dukakis and Gore, are post-liberal politicians who have built their careers around competence and mastery of complex subjects rather than ideological appeal. The almost willful blandness of these two white Democrats is a form of protective camouflage designed to help them win in November, if nominated. These sober strategies seem pallid to many Democratic voters in contrast to the feel-good allure of a vote for Jackson...
When Washington's movers and shakers get home from a hard day at work and switch on CBS for the 7 o'clock news, they get TV's equivalent of the New York Times or Washington Post: a sober (if succinct) look at the day's events. Come next September, however, those viewers will have to tune in half an hour earlier for Dan Rather's report. Replacing it at 7 will be a different sort of news show, based on a different sort of newspaper: USA Today...