Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, sober second thoughts began to set in, and for the first time since he began his march around India nine years ago, Bhave found himself under heavy attack. Dryly, the Times of India noted that ten times as many dacoits had surrendered to police in the three years previous. From Madhya Pradesh Police Inspector-General K. F. Rustomji came the bitter charge that Bhave's criticisms of the police had weakened their morale and heartened the dacoits, with the result that the crime rate in the ravines was on the rise. In acid agreement, the Hindustan Times...
Change of Mood. But when his white Ilyushin 18 turboprop set down in East Berlin, Khrushchev emerged in a new character-sober, sedate, mantled in almost Roman dignity. East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht greeted him nervously; he had first learned Nikita was coming only when Khrushchev casually remarked to newsmen in Paris that he "might" stop off on his way home. Khrushchev gave one glowering glance at a stiffly goose-stepping German Communist honor guard, then stepped to the microphones, fished in his pockets for a prepared statement, and read it in a flat monotone voice...
Wall Streeters were counting on a big hike in defense spending, but when Washington took pains to refute this talk, investors had some sober second thoughts. They began to sell the defense stocks, turned their attention to such old favorites as leisure-time stock and such neglected issues as rails and oils. Total effect: the market advanced to 625.24 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, up 12.21 for the biggest one-week gain in six weeks...
Snug Harbor. In Whangarei, N.Z., cold-sober Detective Val Edwards saw two greenish eyes staring up at him from inside a tide-carried gin bottle, was about to head for the nearest bar himself when the bottle broke and an octopus emerged...
...Dandy, by Ellen Moers. The impulse to pluperfection in male attire, scarcely visible in the age of the sack suit and Truman shirt, ran high from Beau Brummell's time to Max Beerbohm's, and the author charts it with sober care...