Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestine mess, were sputtering through a chain reaction of anger. Wrote London's News Chronicle: "If President Truman would take a long, long voyage far out into the sea and speak to no one, there might be some hope of reaching an agreement . . ." Britain's sober Economist pointed a grimmer lesson: "If it [the crisis] is allowed to develop unchecked, the Americans will raise their arms embargo in order to supply the Jews with weapons; and if Britain continues to fulfill its contracts to the Arabs . . . Britain and America will in effect be fighting each other by proxy...
...edited by hard-boiled Pierre Lazareff (TIME, June 23) and now France's biggest paper (circ. 641,000); the Communist Humanite; the Catholic Figaro, famed for its high literary standards; L'Aurore, which rides the De Gaulle bandwagon; the witty, leftist (but not quite Commie) Franc-Tireur; sober Le Monde, the businessman's bible; and Parisien Libere, favorite of the petit bourgeoisie...
...years. To the British it brought the loss of a 10,460-square-mile base in the Mediterranean-and relief from a burden they had snatched up with imperial optimism 31 years ago. To the Arabs, it brought a tautening of determination as well as a more sober assessing of their chances for victory...
...scene is repeated, somewhat more quietly, in proud, sober Ghent and in Bruges, lulled by its gentle chimes, in bustling, muscular Antwerp, in Liège under its pall of soot from the mines and the blast furnaces. Belgium has quietly achieved an almost incredible state: postwar prosperity. What is more, Belgium has largely done it by free enterprise. Or "planned freedom," as Belgians call...
...particularly difficult one at Harvard. Council labors are, for the most part, hardly of the type that catch the imagination; Councilmen and candidates for office have been understandably squeamish about making a lot of noise about issues or their own qualifications for office. It has been a pretty sober affair, as undergraduates who voted last Thursday--or who didn't take the trouble to vote--can testify...