Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assistant cashier in a New Jersey bank, arrested last January for embezzling $9,000 from his till, had a shocking story to tell. He was a sober, hard-working family man, a devoted husband, father of six children. He told authorities he had taken the money to buy cortisone for his wife, who had suffered for years from crippling arthritis. The drug had made a new woman of her. While the dosage continued, she was free of pain, able to leave her bed and care for her children. But the cost was great-close...
...Mark Twain was not a great writer until the American people woke up 50 years too late. By the same token, Walt Whitman was not a great writer, either. Nevertheless, when Lewis said: "I'm the best goddam writer in this here goddam country," drunk or sober, he was right...
...sober crowd of faithful followers made its way to Medicine Lodge, Kans. (pop. 2,290), to dedicate a brick and frame house as a W.C.T.U. memorial. It was the old home of Carry Nation, and furnished with her original bar-smashing hatchet, the satchel in which she carried bricks to bash in saloon mirrors and glasses, her old rocking chair and desk, and a life-sized portrait of the woman who also once urged Britons to give up their intemperate habit of drinking...
...Happy New Year to all who are sober enough at this early hour to read this. Charles M. Zane '50 Co. L, 270th Inf. 45th Div. Camp Polk...
What they are looking for is sober courage, sober calculation. The U.S. performance shows fluctuating courage, fluctuating calculations. To politically wise Italians, the indecisive U.S. attitude toward Communist China is worse than either outright rejection or acceptance, for it looks as if the U.S. is not sure of its political judgment...