Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Great Southern experience left Ryder "more sober and more thoughtful," it did not keep him from experimenting. He considers himself something of a trucking consultant and has even endowed a chair at the University of Miami for transportation studies -partly to ease his own regret at not having had a college education. The Ryder corporation operates a 300-depot maintenance system that services other fleet owners as well as its own trucks, and has an engineering consulting division that advises truck buyers on their design needs and markets its own computer system. Last week Ryder and a consortium...
...calm carries little serenity with it, which may be just as well. Instead, it suggests a complex of rather sober fears; of joblessness, of radical violence, of counterviolence from the government. There is a chastened air. A decade of almost amphetamine economic growth culminates in a recession that, although relatively mild in historical terms, has thrown the fear of wolves into the most resolutely buoyant consumer. Simultaneously, even the most heedless slob in a throwaway society begins to understand that his cans and bottles and poisoned gases are piling up in a fatal glut...
...keep local munitions workers sober during the Great War, the government of Lloyd George expropriated a brewery in the north of England and severely restricted drinking in its chain of 450 pubs. When a British travel firm's Belgian parent company was seized by the Nazis in World War II, the government of Winston Churchill assumed title to Thomas Cook & Son. By now, Britain's march toward nationalization has led to a state-owned industrial complex of brobdingnagian proportions. One-tenth of the country's labor force works for government enterprises, including railways, docks, airlines, bus lines...
...Yeshiva University, one karate student says that he had to argue with his mother for six months before she let him take the course. And his black-belt instructor, Doctoral Candidate Harvey Sober, has arrived at a philosophically precise rationale for his unusual activity: "It's not murder when you kick someone assaulting you," he tells his class. "It's a mitzvah [good deed] that you know...
Determined to perform as a lawyer, not a polemicist, Tigar calmly points out that nearly all the "overt acts" cited by the Government against the defendants consist of meetings and speeches. Dressed in a sober suit, white shirt and tie, Tigar began his opening statement to the jury by promising to be "mercifully brief." He was. "Conspiracy deals in essence with the contents of men's minds," he said in part. "That is the simple heart of this case...