Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rooms, the corridor, and $130 worth of beverages were used to accommodate the estimated 300 students, tutors, and interested though not necessarily sober observers in attendance--over half of whom were dressed in costumes representing a fat slice of historical mankind from Edward the Black Prince to a churl...
...while this attractive little crew is waiting in port for their captain to sober up (it's been two weeks, y'know), so they can sail to Africa and make a killing in uranium, they become entangled with a British tourist and his wife (Jennifer Jones'). These tea-soaked commoners hold illusions of grandeur and romance which fool the intriguers as thoroughly as they fool the Britishers themselves...
...that "passions have calmed down," wrote Basketball Expert Viktor Grigoriev, "it is time to make a sober analysis." The analysis: Spandarian had been guilty of deceit in reporting that U.S. and Soviet teams had competed as equals; he and other coaches spent too much time on paper work and not enough time on coaching-which resulted in poor discipline among the players, who conducted themselves in Rome with un-Soviet individualism while the Americans ran a happy, smooth cooperative. Moreover, top Soviet Basketball Boss Nikolai Semashko believed Spandarian's tall tales, and together they had "shelved" resolutions exposing...
...soon picked as assistant conductor of the Dutch Radio Philharmonic. In frequent guest stints with the Concertgebouw, Haitink has already replaced the light, silvery Eduard Van Beinum tone with a darker, deeper glow reminiscent of the way the orchestra sounded under Willem Mengelberg. Some critics call him too nuchter (sober), but, says Haitink, "after my first wild years, I am just trying to get a balance between my heart and my head...
...Past. Finally he took out a piece of paper, straightened his tie, and in more sober tones read: "We should like that with the departure of the old year, of the old President, our bad relations with the United States should also depart. During the election campaign, Mr. Kennedy said that had he been President he would have voiced regret to the Soviet government with regard to the U-2 flight. In view of all this, we obviously should not insist on discussing the question in the United Nations Assembly, so as not to let the bad past interfere with...