Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Optimists Down. Such reports from Germany are often 30 to 60 days behind current facts. But sober MEW men believed last week that Germany's economy was still in a process of deterioration, not collapse. If they were right, Nazi Germany can still take a lot of beating from the air and on the fronts...
Tougher Hide. But with further success, the joy in success abated. Today, at 39, Hart is no caviar-for-breakfast fellow, but a pretty sober citizen. His chief indulgence is his farm, now more arboreal than ever. Tall, dark and glittering, with Mephistophelean eyebrows and Biblical eyes, for six years he has been going to a psychoanalyst, quips: "I ought to get my F (for Freud) any day now." The visits have helped dispel the dark self-doubts from which the bright gadgets offered escape. They have given him, among other things, the courage to write alone. But he still...
...such conventional conservative Republicans as Missouri's wealthy Edgar Monsanto Queeny. At the same time he had to show the rest of the U.S. that as a Presidential candidate he really had something vital to offer beyond his known attitude of good will to men. In one sober public speech and one off-the-record session he established both points...
...sober Argentines, it seemed that one of two things was about to happen: either the Government of President Pedro Ramirez would break with the Axis soon, or it would be overthrown. This time, unlike the coup which ousted the Castillo Government last June, revolution might be bloody...
...three days of sober, paradeless, "business only" convention, the Legionnaires...