Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lerner noted, "as if he wanted his Texas yell to be heard over the rooftops of the world." Now, despite the spectacular advance billing for the Manila conference, the Administration's dealings with the Communist world and America's emerging allies in Asia are being conducted in sober, muted tones...
...every day the newsstands quickly sold out to a public curious for a look at the paper that had existed for so long only in plans and promises. For the most part, the public was not disappointed. The WJT, reported the Washington Post, has a look of "lively respectability-sober enough for the suburbs and sharp enough for the subways." The paper's four sections averaged a fat total of 60 pages, enough to keep a male commuter occupied all the way home. And there were more than enough features that his wife might want to read...
...Dazed and tearful, Illia ignored the shouts. After the ceremony, he retreated once more to his brother's home. His plans: to sell some of the gifts he received while President and with the money, plus contributions from friends, rent an apartment in Buenos Aires. "He is a sober man," said a friend. "He will not need much...
...training, British Physicist Frank Stannard is a sober scientific observer concerned with the material world of matter and motion, of minute particles and massive reactions. By inclination Stannard is a dreamer. His antic imagination has conjured up an oddball universe where time actually runs backward. There, reports Stannard in Nature, a swimmer would rise from the water to land on a diving board, a decaying apple would gradually turn unripe and then into a blossom, all life would proceed from tomb to womb...
...eight months, an erudite debate has roiled the letters column of the journal Science. At sober issue: How did man lose his body hair...