Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soggy cigar from his mouth, flicked a switch, and called his companies: "Thanks for sticking out the war. You'll be all right now if you don't step on a mine on the way back." At the ist Marine Division, a bugler played taps. Despite the sober warnings, men dashed from their bunkers, shed their flak jackets, then stood around in little groups, talking, in a no man's land that was suddenly safe...
...sheriff-Troy B. Sturgill: "No person should be given this great responsibility . . . if he is not a sober man. I have not taken a drink of anything intoxicating for more than twelve years . . . The sheriff must be reasonable and certainly not a 'hot head.' You never know when your son . . . will fall in the path of an arresting officer, and . . . you most certainly do not want your son abused and beaten by a 'hot head' . . . I have never in my life had an indictment returned against me or a warrant issued for me. I have never...
...shouted. "Too much freedom doesn't become a people. As for the uprising of June 17, "we expected it because the workers were not living as well as workers in West Germany. In fact, the living standard in the U.S.S.R. is lower than that of the U.S.A." Sober and silent 22 hours later, Eisler was released, scurried back to the Soviet zone...
This time the news had the ring of authenticity. It was not the story of a glittering princess who had found her Prince Charming in the fairyland of Mayfair, but of a girl whose increasingly sober face in the newspictures seemed to reflect a deeply troubled heart. The fact was that 22-year-old Margaret was in love with a Battle-of-Britain hero of the R.A.F., a divorced commoner of 38. Family loyalty, religious responsibility, the duty of royalty-all seemed warring with the romantic impulse in the pretty princess' heart...
...Government in the 1930s and '40s had been penetrated by Communists and their sympathizers. The scornful cartoons of the '30s, showing nervous "reactionaries" looking under the bed for Reds, lost their humor as one ex-Communist after another told his shocking story. There were, in sober truth, Reds under the bed-and not only under it. Emerging and increasing evidence of this was politically embarrassing to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party...