Word: sobering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular in West Germany, and the German press, on the whole, restrained in its treatment of G.I. lapses. This era of good feeling was now in jeopardy. "Gangsters and sex maniacs who still today believe they can treat our wives and daughters as game are undesired here," editorialized the sober official gazette of Rhineland-Palatinate...
...heart of Sherwood Forest, sober-sided Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, took corona in mouth and bow in hand, tried to hit a short-range bull's-eye with a suction-cupped arrow in an attempt to promote the sale of his brain child, a savings bond that pays no interest, but offers investors a chance to win ?1,000-a financial stratagem known to Britons as "having a flutter on Harold." Nobody's archery was good enough to win the prize-one ?1 bond. Southpaw Archer Macmillan, perhaps with sporting intent, missed the target...
...Sober Center. After dozens of toasts to Eisenhower, to friendship, to peace, and, in a memorable moment, to Red China (when all the Americans sat stock-still in their seats, raised no glasses), Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev spoke volubly, turning to Twining and challenging: "You are probably interested in our rockets and our ballistic missiles. You would like to see them, wouldn...
Twining, the sober center of all the well-oiled attention, hesitated, considered, and finally nodded yes. "Well," continued Khrushchev, "we want to see yours. Show us your planes and we'll show you our ballistic missiles...
...Friday, "so that the rest of the week would not be consumed in Saturnalia." However, as Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison continues, "this was held an intolerable grievance, not only by the public, but by the country clergy, for whom a Friday Commencement gave insufficient time to sober up and get home for the Sabbath...