Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Declaring that "crisis, unemployment and disunity" are "discrediting" the "imperialist world," Liu described with confidence and sober optimism the prospects for Communist China and the Soviet bloc. With repeated quotations from Marx, Lenin and Mao Tse-tung (who was among the 1,000-odd delegates present), Liu urged increased production to surpass Britain in 15 years. His new slogan: "Hard work for a few years; happiness for a thousand." He predicted more than 7,100,000 tons of steel production this year, against 2,200,000 tons only four years ago. But in the fine print...
...Sputnik and the crisis in American education have done their work to sober up the traditional week of reckless abandon, when the "old grads" return to Cambridge, and to the "bright college days" of ten, twenty-five, or fifty years ago. Being a Harvard alumnus has become a year-round...
Only a few sober observers faced the grim reality: a handful of disciplined and dedicated Communists were brazenly but legally taking over a free country whose economy is dependent on U.S. aid, whose troops are being trained by a French military mission, whose 2,000,000 citizens have hardly heard of Marx and Lenin, and do not know what a Communist is. They only know that they are poor, and when they get the vote, many of them cast it for "the other party," which in Laos, as in so many of the world's underdeveloped countries, means...
...orchard, and pruned out the darker growths in his vision of social decay. Trofimov, for example, a pompous dreamer in most Western versions, becomes more the fiercely earnest youth, obviously the bright hope of a Soviet future. And Gayev and Madame Ranevskaya, usually played as cultivated bumblers, appear as sober, ordinary people overtaken by cold reality...
...June 11 sober seniors will convene behind Sever to attend Class Day Exercises. Why everybody continues to use the word Exercises is hard to say. Nothing much happens, except everybody gets bored and starts twitching about, hoping a thunderstorm will break and end the ceremonies early...