Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Paris bureau cabled last week: "It is a sober fact that there is only a small chance that France can avoid a limited form of civil...
When Cornell starting pushing the Crimson around in the first quarter, a few of the less sober spectators though it was their own Big Red team that was losing. As courtesy to its guest, Cornell had switched from its traditional colors to white jerseys, with the Crimson wearing red. Harvard will do the same for the Ithacans next fall in the Stadium...
...Beirut, sober-sided Stephen Penrose expects to soft-pedal his Arab views. (His first act last week: a cable for money in behalf of 70 Palestinian students whose funds had been cut off.) He hopes to make A.U.B., already famed for the statesmen and doctors among its 15,000 alumni, also a center for technical education...
...best patients, concluded Drs. O'Hollaren and Lemere, were those who were happily married, successful, intelligent, emotionally stable, financially secure, interested in sobriety clubs (like Alcoholics Anonymous). The worst risks were patients who were heavy drinkers before they were 30, were highly nervous even when sober, had had delirium tremens, were restless in their jobs and careless about money...
...like a comic strip-and an ugly one. For years, the world's best pressagents have been plugging the theme that Hollywood is a typical American town, a wholesome little community populated by "just folks": a lot of them better-than-average-looking, to be sure, but hardworking, sober, law-abiding, family-loving. This picture of the town, while true as far as it goes, glosses over the fact that under the klieg-lit, high-pressure, high-paid strains peculiar to Hollywood, some of its supertense citizens sometimes volatilize and take to drink, adultery or dope. The movie industry...