Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sober, intelligent administrators are supported by a 40-to-11 parliamentary majority and an economy that provides Asia's second highest per capita income ($400). They are hopeful that by the time their first term is up in 1964, they can win membership in the Malayan Federation-not by revolutionary exertions but by evolutionary responsibility...
...declaring their delight in the fact that express trains often made unscheduled stops of 15 minutes or more because the delays give them a chance to get out and perform calisthenics. "After the exercises," women of Chekiang province were quoted, "our limbs feel more relaxed and our brain more sober...
...share some striking similarities in their public images. Their speeches are clean-cut, utterly devoid of oratorical flamboyance. They are both, though smiling often, fundamentally a new, sober breed of politician. And though many who have seen neither close up regard them both as machine-made organization men, one of the surprises of the campaign is the intensity of their impact in person. The crowds swarm around them, eager to touch or be touched by them...
Blue Sky Estimates. The forecasts were out of line chiefly because some sales estimates were more blue sky than blue chip. The original overoptimism is long gone, replaced by a sober realization that the U.S. economy, while operating at close to a peak level, is not moving forward in line with expectations...
Author Marquand's feelings about Lord Timothy are mixed. He grudgingly admires some qualities in a self-made Yankee who wasn't as silly as he seemed. But he admits that Dexter "suffered from senile concupiscence, he was ill-educated, and he was vulgar when drunk or sober." He sees him as a caricature of his period, but his dubious hero gives him a chance to revisit a time and a way of life that Marquand found more gracious and attractive than the "five o'clock shadow of mediocrity" that is creeping over Newburyport. It was only...