Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was no question about Brown's fondness for spirits. He usually reeked of them and was frequently drunk. Drunk or sober, he treated Victoria with brusque rudeness, and the Queen was apparently amused. She would laugh delightedly at his crudities and expect her horrified courtiers to do the same. One of her great delights were the Chillies' Balls, at which Victoria and Brown would prance and dance wildly together. "What a coarse animal that Brown is," said Lord Cairns, the Lord Chancellor, to the Queen's secretary, Henry Ponsonby. "I daresay the Chillies' Ball could...
...brought in a goat, very dead, plucked out its eyes and served them to us. Justice Douglas turned to me and said. 'For the sake of America, Bob, make like it's an oyster.' So things have gone up since then." But it was on a sober note that he closed his speech. "My greatest impression of Japan is the great thirst for knowledge of the people. I'm amazed at how interested they are and how much they know about the United States and what is going...
...thoughts and instincts and create a horde of obedient automatons. On the contrary, wrote Salisbury, a large section of Russia's youth is rebellious and alive with foreign ideas in the wake of the long years of Stalinist repression. Salisbury does not ignore the millions of sober Communist youngsters who study hard in their schools and universities, or work enthusiastically in factories. But more importantly, said Salisbury, there is rising a "lost generation . . . alienated from Soviet goals and strongly oriented toward anything Western-from a new hairdo to democratic freedoms...
...Tanganyika, sober, sensible Prime Minister Julius Nyerere answered mounting criticism in his T.A.N.U. party by firing the most respected member of his Cabinet-a white man-and then resigning himself. But Nyerere kept his post as T.A.N.U.'s boss. It was a political maneuver that might, in fact, make Nyerere stronger than ever, for he installed as new Prime Minister his own close ally, Rashidi Kawawa, 32, onetime movie star whose long sideburns and curling eyelashes won him fame and top billing in Swahili films, including one titled Country Bumpkin. During his acting career, Kawawa found time...
...stevedore's mind takes the form of jealousy, and jealousy begins when his wife's cousins, fleeing famine in Sicily, enter the U.S. illegally, go to work on the docks, come to live in the stevedore's cold-water flat. One of the cousins is a sober married man (Raymond Pellegrin), but the other is a charming gio-vanotto (Jean Sorel) who soon falls in love with the niece. Disturbed, the stevedore at first makes fun of the newcomer, but the niece falls in love with the boy anyway. Desperate, the stevedore resorts to slander: "He marry...