Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...municipal auditorium one night last week, Texans plumped into their seats for a go at a favorite pastime: admiring the work of a native son. This time, the son was Composer and Folksong-Arranger (Home on the Range) David Wendel Fentress Guion, 56, a short (5 ft. 5 in.) sober-faced man with a pince-nez, who now lives in Pennsylvania. Guion's latest composition: a symphonic suite called Texas, commissioned for the Houston Symphony Society...
...were wondering, not long ago, why the younger generation have lost substantial hope in life, and why they quietly and naively seek security. Once they come to accepting projects like AEC as sober realities, what else is left for them to choose...
Last week, confronted with an enemy who had already recruited a German army of his own, and encouraged, though with some misgivings, by the Western Allies, West Germany took the first steps to raise a new Wehrmacht. It tell to a sober, pale German official named Theodor Blank to broadcast the details of a new 300,000-to 400,000-man German military machine with...
Poised and slim in her sober, untinseled bullfighter's costume, blonde Patricia McCormick flashed her scarlet cape at the second of her two bulls. The first had been tame and lackluster. The crowd at the Juárez bull ring knew that if the first U.S. professional torera's debut was to be a success, this fight had better be good...
...Graham moved in on Washington, D.C. for the first time in his career, to hold a five-week "crusade" of revival meetings. As a concession to Washington's conservative tastes, Preacher Billy toned down his tailoring, took the pulpit at the National Guard Armory last week wearing a sober blue double-breasted suit. But he gave Washington the same high-tension preaching show that has rocked auditoriums in the West and South...