Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. General Courtney Hicks Hodges, 79, World War II commander of the U.S. First Army in its spearhead drive across the center of France and Germany; of a heart attack; in San Antonio. A sober professional who in 1905 flunked out of West Point (for failing geometry), then climbed from buck private to four-star general, Hodges had little of the personal flair of a Patton or a Montgomery; but he was a solid tactician whose 450,000-man force liberated Paris, fought its way out of the bitter Battle of the Bulge and smashed the Nazis' Siegfried Line...
...action. He wanted to discuss the war in Viet Nam but, because of the still continuing peace offensive, not in too much detail. He had plans for many new projects at home, but he wanted to leave himself an out in the event the war escalates. So, in a sober, straightforward speech, he strongly expressed his belief that the U.S. has the strength to fight the war and simultaneously improve its society at home...
...turnout of cops, the mourners were a somber, sober lot. "We called him 'Mother,' " explained a fellow cyclist. "He was so righteous. Any time there was a party, he was the first one there and the last to leave." When the "chicks" in leather boots and dark tights, usually proud of their toughness, saw the open casket with Miles's "colors," a sleeveless jacket bearing the Hell's Angels' emblem, they sobbed. Only after the funeral oration, when the coffin was placed in the hearse, did the sound that Miles lived and died by suddenly...
Five Watchers. Such a man as Lowry has trouble in this world even when sober-which he was for long productive periods. His letters, collected by his widow and the New York Times's Harvey Breit, record enough of those troubles -neglect, poverty, manuscripts lost or burned-to make paranoiacs of 50 poets. Lowry first appears as "a small boy chased by furies." He strummed a guitar in dives, "ran away to sea," and the last thing he did to please his bewildered father, a Liverpool cotton broker who fox-hunted, was to graduate (third-class honors) in English...
...successful, at 50, and retired at 70. Disraeli might proclaim that "almost everything that is great has been done by youth." But the vast majority agreed instead with Lord Chesterfield, who remarked, "Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough...