Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sober second thought, many Quebeckers thought that Duplessis had won too much power. Until the next election there would be only one check on him. The Legislative Council (upper house), whose 24 members are appointed for life, has 17 Liberals...
...Michael's a witness, they cheer. Cheer themselves hoarse, they do, which produces such a parching and a dryness of the entire population that, faith, by the time the young duke and his friends get back to their naval duty at Londonderry, you'd scarce find a sober breath in all Buncrana, and that's in County Donegal on the shores of Lough Swilly...
...bustling Hertfordshire town of St. Albans last week, 1,000 sober Englishmen, dressed up as Roman legionaries, Saxon peasants, Norman kings, monks and long-haired cavaliers, re-enacted the glory of their town. The occasion: the 1,000th anniversary of St. Albans School...
Both sides were still talking belligerently and boasting of famous victories-by-communiqué. The sober facts were that fighting so far had been on a small scale,* that (except for Arab raids into Galilee) all of it had taken place outside Israel's borders as fixed by U.N., that Syrian and Lebanese troops had been driven from northern Palestine, that the Egyptians were hard-pressed south of Tel Aviv, and that the Jews had not been able to open the road to Jerusalem. Mediator Bernadotte might be helped by the fact that both Jews and Arabs seemed reluctant...
This sort of thing disturbed the administrators greatly, and for awhile they tried to keep the day of the exercises a secret until the last minute, but that didn't work at all. Then they passed rules saying that students had to come in sober, dark clothes, and forbidding them to consume distilled liquors or plum cake on the big day. They even had a clause against the eating of plain cake as an evasion of the law. There was nothing stopping wine or punch, however, and things went on as merrily as ever...