Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months ago, Sir Roy Welensky, the Central African Federation's Prime Minister, looked with considerable gloom at a crucial aspect of the African economy. "Let's face it," he said, "as an investment, Africa stinks." Reporting to his stockholders recently, a sober London businessman who presides over the biggest foreign enterprise in Africa took a more optimistic tack. "The African outlook," said Unilever Chairman George J. Cole, "is less dark than one might think...
...Hearst series went on to attack the small (but disciplined) band of young men responsible for writing the statement, and to announce: "Red hue seen in Cuba peace plea." Meanwhile, the New York Times' sober analyst Arthur Krock, based his attack not on innuendo, but on his own concept of the pertinent facts...
...what is buoyant and boisterous about it, though it now has a more flaring sense of worldliness and wiles. But its playful side eats into its prayerful side, leaving Becket half snuffed out. If clear-spoken, Arthur Kennedy-who has not yet worked into the part-seems much too sober and colorless. With this second try at Henry, it becomes Henry II's show...
...days. Stevenson and Dean Rusk conferred with President Kennedy as the vote on the Angola resolution approached. To the sponsors of the Angola resolution (Liberia, Ceylon and the U.A.R.). Stevenson insisted that the U.S. would not support a strident, hysterical measure. As a result, the drafters took a sober second look at their own resolution and agreed to tone it down. During the debate, Adlai Stevenson cited the Declaration of Independence and chided NATO Partner Portugal for ignoring the obvious signals that could push Angola into the same hideous chaos Belgium had bestowed upon its Congo colony. When...
...this talk about Mr. Kennedy's sitting in conference with Khrushchev is all nonsense. The story of the hunter and the bear will illustrate: as a hunter raised his rifle, the bear called out, "Can't we talk this over like two sober human beings?" The hunter lowered his gun. "What's to talk over?" he asked. "Well," said the bear, "what do you want to shoot me for?" "Simple," grunted the hunter, "I want a fur coat." "All I want is a good breakfast," smiled the bear. "I am sure we can get together on this...