Word: sobering
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...Wisconsin looked down our pristine noses, clicked our chaste tongues and said: "How could Hitler come to power in sober, intelligent Germany...
...Today we bow our heads in shame and humiliation as we feel the eyes of the nation and hear: "How could McCarthy happen in 'sober, intelligent Wisconsin...
...questions. Most believe that when Plato described Atlantis (in the Dialogues Timaeus and Critias), he was merely writing a political pamphlet about an imaginary state. His contemporaries did not take him literally, but during the Middle Ages Plato gained such enormous authority that his political fantasy was accepted as sober fact. An Atlantis cult grew, and still flourishes. The myth has even multiplied, begetting Mu (sunk in the Pacific) and Lemuria (sunk in the Indian Ocean...
...South Africa's Chinese colony, 4,000 strong and as sober as Mandarin ducks, this was a matter of face. At the same time that he signed Swart's Chinese prohibition decree, Governor General Ernest George Jansen invited Shao Ting, 58, Nationalist China's Consul General in Johannesburg, to a United Nations ball. Under the decree, Shao or any other Chinese attending the event would not be able to get a drink. Shao refused to go. He wrote to the government protesting the "stigma of inferiority" implied in Swart's decree. After all, said Shao...
...appointed professor of ancient languages at Oxford's Miami University, was exactly the type of sobersided teacher the fledgling university wanted. Last week, in a high-ceilinged room of Miami University's Alumni Library, 300 members of the McGuffey Society came to dedicate a museum to the sober scholar (and to his disciple, Miami's late Dean Harvey C. Minnich), who was to become one of the best-known names in U.S. education: the author of McGuffey's famed Eclectic Readers...