Word: soberer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Southern coaches were most enthusiastic about the Crimson's play--although naturally unpleasantly surprised. They seemed to think the varsity far superior to the other barnstorming northern teams. And they tended to agree with Munro's sober statement...
...Appraisal. A sober but hopeful realism touched Eisenhower's overall appraisal: "There is no real security yet achieved in Europe; there is only a beginning ..." Many divisions have yet to be trained for immediate service and as a reserve. Europe's arsenals must be greatly expanded. Air power is far from adequate. SHAPE'S planners have to keep in mind the economic health of each ally-including the U.S. "America cannot continue to be the primary source of munitions for the entire free world . . . The U.S. cannot long continue such expenditures without endangering her own economic structure...
...sober analysis, Dwight Taylor's screenplay, with its rich lather of plot manipulation and sentimentality, verges on soap opera. But George (A Place in the Sun) Stevens' direction is clean and uncluttered. Stevens has a camera magic that evokes a world of romantic illusion: the frustrated lovers caught up in a slow mire of overlapping dissolves, of magnificent closeups, of telephones ringing unanswered, of rainswept city streets...
...teetotaling Muley Doughton-"what little brains I got, I have to keep sober so I can do my work"-Washington was losing a sturdy landmark. At 88, he is getting deaf (though some say he can hear just fine when he wants to). In the last year or so, he has taken to sleeping in, gets to his office around 8 a.m., three hours later than in the old days. But his 6 ft. 2 in. frame is still as straight as an Indian's and almost as tough as it was in his boyhood on the farm, when...
...Sober Choice. But the King and his doctors faced a sober question which only George VI himself could answer. Should he try to prolong his life to the utmost by taking scrupulous care never to tax his heart, and become a perpetual invalid? Or should he live, as much as possible, the life of a normal man of 56? In the background, too, there was the inevitable question of a reappearance of cancer...