Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Words were Thurber's obsession; in one of his stories drunken friends burst in upon the narrator, forlornly sober, to tell him of the words they have found locked in other words...
...real strength in Berlin-and at any other point in the perimeter of the free world's defenses that might tempt the Communist probes-is much more broadly based. Our confidence in our ability to deter Communist action, or resist Communist blackmail, is based upon a sober appreciation of the relative military power of the two sides. The fact is that this nation has a nuclear retaliatory force of such lethal power that an enemy move which brought it into play would be an act of self-destruction on his part. The United States has today hundreds of intercontinental...
There are only two kinds of music; German music and bad music. Puccini was the best of the wops. His aim was to entertain well-fed folk after dinner-and he did it very competently. Verdi is not to be heard sober, but with a few whiskies tinder my belt I enjoy the last act of II Trovatore. Chopin is a sugar-teat: his music is excellent on rainy afternoons in Winter, with the fire burning, the shaker full and the girl somewhat silly...
Reds would liven up the show with one of their water-throwing vehicles (they did not). Paar had decided earlier that ''because the Berlin crisis warrants sober consideration, we intend to treat it just that way." Back home on Capitol Hill. Congressmen snorted "shocking" and ''intolerable"; the Pentagon split all five sides and promptly removed one Berlin-based officer, admonished a second. Quipped Paar, "All I can say is it's going to get a hell of a rating for that show...
...terrorized. Shirer writes with dignity, authority and a total lack of adult condescension. Without blinking the problem of evil, he captures the demonic fascination of Hitler, whose life was essentially the success story of a monster. Like most of the Landmark series, this book is for the keen and sober youngster who is ready to put away childish things and become, like every man, a child of the time...