Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memoirs should be regarded as a further but redundant demonstration that a policy of sound principle and sober purpose ultimately will prove of more avail than one of protean extremism...
...that had come the report of Defense Secretary James Forrestal. Returning from his conference with top military strategists in Key West (TIME, March 22), Forrestal had gone to the White House to present two sober conclusions, which added up to one & the same conclusion: the U.S. must...
...Washington, Administration officials spoke in tones of unmistakable concern. At a press conference in the State Department's second-floor auditorium, a sober Secretary of State told newsmen that the situation was "very, very serious." Next night, before the Federal Council of Churches in the echoing Gothic nave of Washington's great unfinished cathedral, the Secretary repeated his warnings...
Father Riccardo Lombardi's "Crusade of Love" (TIME, March 1) marched on. In Naples of the volatile south, as in Milan of the sober north, the impassioned exhortations of the pale little Jesuit reached hundreds of thousands...
Only one Southern stalwart came forward to sound a sober warning to the secessionists. He was no warm friend of Harry Truman's. But Florida's Senator Claude Pepper thought Virginia's ballot plan a "brazen scheme," the effect of which would be to give the electoral voting power "to a little group of party bosses...