Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be grateful. But, as the negotiators at Panmunjom signed an agreement on the exchange of prisoners and prepared to issue a cease-fire order (see INTERNATIONAL), there was little U.S. elation. Presidential Aide Sherman Adams, delivering a commencement address at St. Lawrence University, struck a note of sober warning. "At the moment of a Korean truce," he said, "we shall be in danger. There will be nothing in the terms of such a truce which will give any permanent relief from the ominous threat which confronts the free world...
There were sober second thoughts. "The British people have had a holiday from reality long enough," wrote the London Times in an editorial that started softly enough but ended with a ringing indictment of "a good people grown careless...
Author Edouard Stackpole, who comes from an old Nantucket clan himself, tells the story of the Essex with a plenitude of details and a sober chronicler's lack of shock. Few whaling men had as tragic a time as the men of the Essex, but whaling, as Author Stackpole describes it in The Sea-Himters, was characteristically a dangerous, grim and dirty business. Stack-pole's book is a serious attempt to set down the round story of how it all started, and how for a few generations it made Nantucket rich and famous...
...woman of 45, brought in singing, swearing and staggering." She was given a 100-mg. hypodermic shot of B6. "The results were far more dramatic than I anticipated . . . Three minutes [later] she became quiet, apologized for the trouble she had caused us, and asserted she felt quite sober. She was able to walk across the room perfectly steadily...
...judges democracies, American and European, by the standards of a nostalgic monarchist, and thereby misses a major point, i.e., that the philosophic basis of U.S. democracy is the equality of all men before God. But his warnings on the dangers of the secular state are nonetheless sound and sober...