Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that the sign also warns that the place is closed on Tuesday reflects the probability that the joint is overcrowded on Sunday, attended by drunks on Monday who must sober up and who collect strength on Tuesday to start it all over again on Wednesday. This is an encouraging sign. It was so in the "bad old days of the Czar," when the empties were also thrown all over the back yards of Russia until the time came to throw them through the shop windows...
...Greenleases came another note, enclosing Bobby's Maltese cross school pin as proof that the family was dealing with the real kidnapers. After that, Hall called the family by telephone. He sounded sober, speaking in a low but brisk tone, introducing himself each time as "M." From Kansas City pay stations, he sometimes talked for as long as ten minutes. To find out if her son was still alive, Mrs. Greenlease one night talked to him directly and requested Hall to ask Bobby two questions: What was the name of the Greenlease driver in Europe last summer? What...
Prescription. In Philadelphia, Miss., the Neshoba County grand jury found the county jail in "a deplorable condition," suggested that "if it is necessary to put drunks arrested in it, they should be kept drunk so as not to sober up and realize the sordid condition of the jail...
Reporting on his travels, Stevenson obviously intended to sound a sober and eloquent appeal to reason in world affairs...
...meetings and literature. The novelists-Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, and later Erskine Caldwell and Faulkner-were blatantly detailed, and behind them stood the anthropologists and psychoanalysts with their case histories. But the generation still had no Kinsey. It was left to him to clothe the subject in the sober, convincing, guaranteed-to-be-scientific garb of statistics...