Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist east sector. Last week, taking another slice, the East Germans made the pass requirement permanent for West Germans visiting East Berlin. Excepted from the rule: foreigners and native Berliners, who cross the border by the thousands each day to work in the east. "This will help to sober up the West German militarists," said Ulbricht...
...morning "coffees," afternoon teas and press conferences. Lady Bird explained Lyndon with wifely conviction: "Lyndon is the same man as before. He has never been embraced by extreme liberals or extreme conservatives." Ethel got an admiring gasp when she was introduced as the mother of seven children. Eunice drew sober attention with a summary of her brother's war record, his qualifications for the presidency ("It would take more than Jimmy Hoffa to scare my brother"), and took on the job of outlining Sister-in-Law Jackie's qualifications for First Lady: "She's 31, speaks five...
Rare Eloquence. Hammarskjold confronted a second major crisis when Premier Lumumba served an "ultimatum," threatening that he would call in Russian troops if the U.N. did not get the Belgians out of the Congo at once. Hammarskjold offered a careful, sober report on what the U.N. police force had achieved in a brief five days and what it hoped to achieve in the immediate future. Despite Belgian charges and Congo countercharges, it was Hammarskjold's level-voiced account that carried the most weight. In the course of the action, Hammarskjold had the satisfaction of seeing the Soviet Union cast...
Regardless of political affiliation, every American should give long and sober thought as to how he is going to vote in the coming election...
...Thames was full of practicing oarsmen last week, all correctly garbed in soggy sweat suits and all wearing the sober face of dedication to a gentleman's sport. Then an Australian named Stuart Mackenzie clapped a flippantly incorrect bowler on his head, put on a sardonic grin, and sallied out for a trial scull. Watching Mackenzie's parody of his prospective rivals, one old Cambridge rowing blue sniffed: "Just not the sort of thing done around here...