Word: sobering
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...controlled exploration. The details of these "lunar probes," combined with a primer called "Introduction to Outer Space," added up to a vision more astounding than any man-made magic yet dreamed of in the fast-paced 20th century. "This," announced President Eisenhower, "is not science fiction. This is a sober, realistic presentation...
...place of their usual juicy tidbits about the doings of high society, Turkish gossip columns printed a curt and sober announcement last week: "Because of an agreement with the Turkish Newspaper Owners' Syndicate, we are discontinuing our society columns." Though the ban was made to seem a do-it-yourself affair, it was actually inspired by none other than Premier Adnan Menderes himself. The columnists, it seemed, had been giving too much gaudy publicity to The marriage of a former Miss Turkey to the mayor of Izmir, who also happens to be a cousin of the Premier...
Everyone who knew Ed Stone in that era agrees that he would have drawn far more in commissions if he had drawn more sober breath...
...yourself book. It does not claim the philosophic depth of Theodore Draper's The Roots of American Communism (TIME, March 18, 1957), which argued that the party was to some extent a native heresy grafted onto the root stock of American radicalism, but it is valuable as a sober piece of accountancy by an official whose job, among others, is to help protect federal property -including the Constitution...
...years as the restlessly perfectionist editor of the New York Times's fat, sober Sunday supplements, Lester Markel, 64, has always put fact above fancy (and reaps his reward in juicy ads for bras, girdles and lingerie). In the latest Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Markel chides other editors for stressing entertainment. "I have been impelled at times," says he, "to inquire whether [we] should not properly be called The Froth Estate...