Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During a 10½-year period the sanitarium treated 2,323 patients (93% were men) by the emetine method. They were of every type: business and professional men, neurotics, former inmates of state institutions. They received no other treatment, but were encouraged to stay sober by social workers. The results: 85% stayed sober for six months, 70% for a year, 60% for two years, 55% for three years, 40% for four years, more than 30% up to seven years, 25% up to 10½ years or longer...
...help her discharge her responsibilities, the Dutch people have elected a sober, able lot of politicians. The two largest parties, the Laborites and the Catholics, work well together. The Netherlands' Premier, Willem Drees, is a quiet, respected Socialist who started out as a bank clerk and parliamentary stenographer. Last week he peered through his pince-nez from behind his neat desk and spoke to a U.S. newsman. "Western Union? A fine and necessary thing, but it will take a lot of time ... Holland is grateful indeed...
Nomenclature. In Hot Springs, Va., the city prepared to welcome convention delegates of the Heat Exchange Institute. In Hartford, Conn., William Sober was fined for drunkenness. In Oakdale, Calif., zoning officials ordered Cleveland Cackler to get rid of his chicken coop...
Political Bends. The new Israelis walked with a confident swagger along beach front at Tel Aviv. They talked confidently-indeed, stridently-of a state of ten million, not necessarily confined to the present boundaries of Israel. It was a bad joke, and also a sober observation, that the idea of Drang nach Osten lived in the new nation of Hitler's victims. As they looked around them at a disorganized and unproductive Arab world, Israelis showed some of the reactions of the prewar Germans looking around a disorganized and unproductive Europe...
...cylinderheads, none of the hard geometrical grace of the conventional aircraft engine. Yet the unprepossessing turbojet engine has thrown the air designers into ecstatic confusion: nobody yet knows how fast the jet will enable man to fly, but the old speed ceilings are off. In their less guarded moments, sober designers talk of speeds so high that aircraft will glow like meteors...