Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reserve nor her mother's dazzling charm. Last week, as she stood unobtrusively at her father's elbow, she frequently seemed plain bored. But those who looked sharp could catch an occasional rare smile, lighting her face like a searchlight, or see her knit her brow in sober perplexity over some paradox of Empire in an official's talk...
...first springtime of the new peace last year, U.S. women shopped giddily for Easter finery. This year, things were different. Shopping was definitely sober...
...Hearst syndicate counters neatly by a campaign against obscene literature to prove that it is on the right side. For this sop they are told to "clean their own house" and the battle goes merrily on while the newspapers' circulation climbs. Whatever the reason for the inability of sober-minded Boston to cope with the greatest lack in its society, the opposing factions seem to have split the pie. Bostonians now get murder with their coffee and morals with their tea, all the while remaining blissfully ignorant of what goes on outside the city limits...
...charter and the terms of the treaties with the beaten nations were the rules in the contest between Russia and the West, not the contest itself. That would be fought far from U.N.'s sober committee rooms. If anti-Communist Moslems and Hindus could not agree, Communism would gain in India (see FOREIGN NEWS). If the anti-Communist Chinese Government could get transportation going, Communism would be set back. If Communist parties and other projections of Moscow's will were able to hamstring non-Communist governments or to divide peoples, that would represent Russian gains just as surely...
Controlled Approach. In sober fact, CAA had done a creditable job with what it had. It had given top priority to what everyone agreed was the No. 1 problem-landing in soupy weather. That CAA still considered this a problem exasperated the Army, the Navy and the public. For the past year and a half the public had heard of the spectacular feats of the Army & Navy's G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach). It was relatively simple. The only equipment needed in the plane was an ordinary two-way radio. A radar unit on the field picked up the plane...