Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign policy (TIME, Aug. 27). His denunciation of Soviet-backed Balkan Governments and refusal to countenance intervention in Spain shocked left-wingers who looked for sweeping changes. Editorialized the Communist Daily Worker: "This is not yet the lead which millions of service and home voters . . . are waiting for." More sober and more traditional was the sizing-up of the Manchester Guardian: "British foreign policy, as Mr. Bevin expounded it, is not a matter of party...
...Sober-sided New York Timesman Hanson Baldwin rumbled: "There is not much use blinking the fact that . . . the Japanese had made us look like monkeys- not on the battlefield, but since fighting virtually ceased...
Readers Wanted. The new Pic is a slicker two-bit, Esquire-like 120-page monthly aimed directly at the homebound G.I. Its thesis is that soldiers who yearned over pin-up girls in foxholes and wolf-howled in Paris will come home more sober and serious. To win them, Pic plans career pieces ("How G.I.s Can Become Farmers"), designs for living ("First Civvies in Five Years") and sidebar ticklers ("Widows Are Dangerous...
...week's end, heads had cleared sufficiently after the concussive election news, for some sober stocktaking. What did Labor's victory mean to Britain now? Certainly not a Bolshevik revolution. The Laborites were advocates of gradual necessary social repairs, enemies of violent change. All the leaders were responsible men. Most of them had had Cabinet experience...
...Only three, by virtue of "long experience," are "pre-eminently qualified": sober, tomb-toned Raymond Swing; painstaking, calm-voiced Edward Murrow; ponderous, staccato-voiced Johannes Steel...