Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only Heir." The sober Frankfurter Rundschau listed contradictions in the German and French positions. Then it said: "The statesmen of Europe seem to have reached the end of their wisdom-or of their courage. Don't they see that they cannot continue this policy of thoughtlessness, that it must inevitably end in social chaos, and that the only heir of such a state is Stalin...
Such a bold venture as setting the fleeting moment in its perspective is bound to run afoul of fast changing events on some points. But the broad analysis on which Professor Hughes bases his essay is both provocative and gives a long-range, sober base from which to view the headlines...
...Lehmann fans the performance in Manhattan's Town Hall had the air of a religious rite. They sat devout and mouse-quiet while the singer, dressed in sober black, her chestnut hair caught back in a plain bun, leaned gently against the curve of the piano. Without properties, costume or conspicuous gesture, Soprano Lehmann recreated the aging Viennese beauty with her oldtime fire and finesse...
...many incredulous readers wrote letters to Author Hans Ruesch that he decided to forestall further inquiries with a prefatory note: "I now wish to state beforehand that the social, sexual, and alimentary habits, the religious beliefs, the medical practices, and other modes and manners described in this book . . . are sober anthropological facts, applying chiefly to the Central Eskimos." Even thus warned, readers will shiver at some of the "cold facts" that turn up in Top of the World...
...sober fact, is a kind of hydrogen bomb that generates its life-giving energy by "fusing" hydrogen into helium. Man's new bombs will not use exactly the same reactions, but they will use similar ones yielding the same end product. When the first of them explodes, a little bit of the searing sun will have hit the earth...