Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circus, but it also saw, here & there, the sober and bitterly earnest business of the convention. An American party convention (as James Bryce knew even in 1893) is a highly intricate and sensitive political assembly in which the pressures, deals and loyalties of months and years burst to light. It has always been far more serious than the paper hats and the noisemakers suggest, and, despite the most brazen political backroom coups, eventually subject to the will of the citizen. The presence of TV's eye made it more so. "Jim," the eye seemed to be saying...
...became Vadertje (Little Father) Drees, for under his paternalistic hand the government voted children's allowances, homes for the aged, jobs for disabled workers-the good works of plodding sewer socialism. In 1948 Drees, a freethinker who belongs to no church, moved into the Premier's big, sober room at No. 4, Plain 1813, The Hague, to head a coalition of Catholics and Socialists...
...Sometimes I mistake the sons for the fathers. The fathers look young to me; they look like they did when I went to college with them. But these young men are so much more sober and older looking than we were...
...worst if he is stacked against Taft. His anti-crime crusader's halo will look a little dull if he is compared with the monument of civic rectitude from Ohio. Kefauver's extreme "internationalism," his Atlantic Union background, will make Taft's foreign policy look like sober sense to a lot of voters...
...handing out handfuls of thousand-franc notes, looking especially for the poor & needy. He felt like a king distributing largesse. The number of poor & needy seemed endless. Late that night the police found Maxime dead drunk on the street, his pockets and briefcase empty. In jail the next afternoon, sober but still glowing at the memory of his benefactions, Maxime was unrepentant. "The boss has money enough," he said. "What's 500,000 francs to him? He has 50 million...