Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sober military men still stood firm in their predictions of a long war against Japan. Even if the Japs lost Truk (which they will not until many foot soldiers have lost their lives taking it), or if Truk were bypassed, many bases remained for Admiral Koga's Navy: Singapore, Surabaya in Java, Balikpapan in Borneo, Saipan in the Marianas, Manila and the Japanese homeland bases...
...future abbots: "It beseemeth the abbot to be ever doing some good for his brethren rather than to be presiding over them. He must, therefore, be learned in the law of God, that he may know whence to bring forth things new and old; he must be chaste, sober, and merciful, ever preferring mercy to justice, that he himself may obtain mercy...
Next day I picks up th' 'poon again an looks at it cold sober. 'Sfunny thing, but dammed if it don't have that last year's test schedule on th' cover. Now dat's a useless thing to have there...
...terms Decision hits hard. And though melodramatic in plot, it is sober in tone. For all its earnestness, Decision makes lively theater. For all its unevenness, it is the season's most thought-provoking play...
...seemed to mark the second year of an epoch that sober, responsible publishers and all the carriers and custodians of U.S. culture had hoped for all their lives: a time when book-reading and book-buying reached outside the narrow quarters of the intellectuals and became the business of the whole vast literate population...