Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arata Sugihara, a bureaucrat-turned-politician who has egged on Hatoyama to more and more flirtation with the Communist powers. Washington was pleased, however, with the retention as Foreign Minister of one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, who signed Japan's surrender on the Missouri in 1945. Shigemitsu is a sober, careful man who can be counted on to restrain, as much as he can, Japan's overtures to Russia and Red China...
...site now occupied by Lehman Hall, the first Puritan meeting house was little more than a log cabin. Cambridge itself had been settled only two years before as a "fortified place." Since the meeting house had no bell, the congregation gathered to the roll of a drum. The sober Elders later were able to buy a bell, but their jubilation was short-lived. For Thomas Hooker, their pastor, migrated to Connecticut, leaving only eleven families behind in Cambridge...
Then, as if to sober Socialists, who sometimes talk as if the Red Chinese are just aroused democratic workers on the British model, the government released an official account of the tortures inflicted on British prisoners in Korea by their Chinese captors, including such incidents as taking prisoners onto the frozen Yalu River and pouring water over their bare feet until they froze to the icy surface. The incidents were of a kind painfully familiar to Americans, but rarely mentioned by the British press or government, for fear the truth might be considered too inflammatory...
None for the Road. In Paris, contending that a client charged with reckless driving on the way home from a nightclub had simply been too sober, Lawyer Rene Floriot asked the court to imagine sitting up until 5 a.m. "without letting champagne refresh your ideas and your palate," concluded: "Under these circumstances . . . a catastrophe is inevitable...
...committee had discovered a violation and had acted upon it--by declaring a Yale football player ineligible from intercollegiate competition. While such a general statement was ill-advised--the ultimate leakage of the story led to unnecessary publicity to names and facts--the judgment of the committee seems sober and correct...