Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Takada kept Ohishi in the hospital for a month on trichomycin, a homegrown Japanese antibiotic. Satisfied that Candida had been knocked out, he fed Ohishi test meals of starchy foods. Ohishi stayed stone sober, hopes that his built-in moonshine plant will remain shut down...
Lest the picture of egocentric, overblown disk jockeys sketched in TIME [June 8] be thought typical by sponsors, neighbors and the Internal Revenue bureau, it should be categorically stated that most of us are (relatively) sober, mildly hard-working types, quite outside the pale of the play-for-payola crown...
...under Chief Justice Earl Warren has come under no heavier fire than for its rulings in the prickly area of internal security. Time and again, in apparently sweeping opinions, the court threw its weight on the side of individuals involved in security cases-to the point where many a sober-minded observer feared that the public interest was being jeopardized. But last week, in a pair of 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court gave clearer focus to two of the most controversial of its earlier security-case rulings, brought the conflict between individual rights and public interest into better balance...
Author Busch blows lengthily but achieves only a slight turbulence. Anchylus Saxe, his publisher, is a routinely drawn old thunderer. His women, drunk or sober, are the four-martini kind-it would take that many snorts at a cocktail party to make them endurable. But for old newspaper hands who happen on the book, there is at least one reward-the characterization of a press lord so noble that he allows his own gossip columnist to malign a much-loved member of his family, because, by God, the facts are right...
...Shares. Easygoing, brilliant Merrill Griswold and sober, diligent Dwight Robinson made a crack team. With his flair for drama, Griswold pulled Massachusetts Investors Trust through a major test in 1932. Despite the fund's respectable performance in the crash, the idea persisted that it could not handle a run on its shares. When a Boston bank was forced to cash in 40,000 M.I.T. shares held as collateral, it called up Griswold, advised him that it would deliver the blow gently by selling over a period of several weeks. Snapped Griswold: "Send them in this afternoon." M.I.T. redeemed...