Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When U.S. editorialists fell all over themselves celebrating "the Russian backdown," there was a chance that the U.S. public might be misled into thinking that the Iranian issue had been settled once & tor all. In sober fact, Russia had probably never intended an indefinite military occupation of northern Iran. What she had always wanted was 1) a Government in Teheran amenable to Russian demands, and 2) access to Iranian oil. In the Russo-Iranian treaty Gavam had indicated a high decree of amenability...
...goddam well get offa the booze. . . . Well, I'm going to level with you about Pal Joey. You are a guy that's got to be on the eerie, and you heard I wrote it while I was on the sauce. I didn't. I was sober ... I started [on 'a real beauty'] Thursday. By Saturday morning I'd drunk myself sober...
...everyone goes for football matches 'n dog racing wot they can 'ave a bit of a bet on." Actually the crowds were as big as ever, and grateful for the outing, but some of the old drink-it-up spirit was gone. People generally stayed as sober as their austerity clothes...
...discussion of the moral influence of the Pope: "How many divisions has he got?" At week's end, after Congress had digested the headlines and the advice, it appeared likely that members would change their minds and continue the draft (see ARMY & NAVY), would take a long and sober second look at the universal military training bill (which had once seemed likely to die without debate), would consider the proposed $3,750,000,000 loan to Britain "'much more sympathetically than heretofore...
...true realistic satire" of Swift and Dickens. Izvestia dubbed it "the principle of decadence," and flayed the performers for entering "so deeply into their parts that they lost their touch with reality. They seem to have forgotten whom they are portraying-who the play's heroes are in sober social reality...