Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, even as the Israelis rejoiced last week over their advance into the Negev, more sober officials realized that they had gone about as far south as they could go. In committing the Yarkon they had mortgaged almost their entire available water supply. (In fact, part of the annual 7 trillion cubic feet of water that will flow through the pipeline will be reclaimed from Tel Aviv's sewers...
...Congress, after all but abandoning legislation in favor of investigation, had once again become a legislative body. Public debate, after remaining for years at the level of a mudslinging exchange of personal accusations, had once again become reasoned and sober and factual...
...tribute to the U.N founders was sober and factual: "That there have been failures in attempts to solve international difficulties by the principles of the U.N. charter, none can deny. That there have been victories, only the wilfully blind can fail to see. But clear it is that without the United Nations the failures would still have been written as failures into history. And, certainly, without this organization the victories could not have been achieved; instead, they might well have been recorded as human disasters. These, the world has been spared...
Without Hurry. In West Germany, the enthusiasm that had been strangely missing when the country got its sovereignty six weeks ago now burst forth. Adenauer was the hero of the hour. Visions of a united Germany danced before the eyes of the hopeful; the most sober took pride in this acknowledgment of their young nation's stature. The best the Socialists, thoroughly confounded, could do was demand that the Chancellor fly right off to Moscow before the Big Four talks in July...
Fever Tension. NBC's March of Medicine (sponsored by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories and the American Medical Association) televised the removal of a tumor from a woman's breast. The camera was a straightforward reporter, blinking its impersonal eye at nothing. The sober absence of melodramatics intensified the drama of the operation. The TV audience knew that this was the real thing, taking place at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. Viewers were also told that if the tumor proved malignant, the operation would continue with the removal of the unidentified woman's breast...