Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is now at seven minutes to mid-night. Realists and idealists alike will be clock-watching in the 60's, and it is possible that just this will prevent them from exercising their proper function as sober analysts...
...dressing room coach Cooney Welland spoke soft but sober words, telling his team to forecheck only one man to avoid getting trapped in the offensive zone. His words were well-heeded, for Bland and his third period replacement, Godfrey Wood, needed to make only four saves the rest of the night...
Today, residents are engaged in the more sober business of trying to save their Wharf from progress. Not more than a month ago, Quincy Market Cold Storage & Warehouse Company, owner of the loft, notified tenants to depart by July 1. After that, the company plans to demolish the building and close access to the wharf for safety reasons...
...firings in various persons' brains. More than any other author among today's galaxy of national strategy commentators, Kahn has caused a fecundity of vented spleens from that group he vaguely classifies as "Utopians." Simultaneously, from that group of observers Kahn wishes he could with a clear conscience call "sober analysts," he has ignited more than a few brushfires...
...major factor favoring Davison in his reform was the sober maturity of the veterans who returned from World War I impatient with the Glee Club's rowdiness. Another was the University Chapel Choir, for as Organist, he had control over repertoire. When at Christmas 1913 he introduced some Radcliffe singers into the choir, President Lowell warned him sternly not to do it again, but when the beautifully varied tone of a mixed chorus reappeared the following year, Lowell remained silent and thereafter supported Davison unswervingly...