Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...message of this candidate also differs from that of her competitors. While the typical "Vote For Me" statement appears at the bottom of this poster as on all others, the body of the text consists of a sober discussion of the issues that the Council should take up rather than trying to tickle the funnybone of voters...
...Sober academic pursuits bowed to knee-slapping humor as more than 1000 students flocked to Sanders Theatre to attend Harvard's third Comedy Night on Saturday...
...past 25 years, it has a sci-fi quality: one section of the building resembles some enormous otherworldly blimp, the other calls to mind a high-tech samurai helmet. But unlike the slicker gimmicky UFO architecture (Kurokawa's earlier work, for instance), Maki's gym is restrained and sober, a mature fantasy. The flawless, parabolic stainless-steel skin is 1.6 acres in size but just about one-sixtieth of an inch thick...
...elective office. Public service -- or, as du Pont describes it, "giving something back" -- was expressed through quiet philanthropy. Today, Delaware's du Pont plants are liberally matched with du Pont libraries, museums and foundations. If one trait unites the 2,000 far-flung du Pont descendants, it is their sober quest for privacy. They have spent two centuries perfecting their seclusion from the prying public...
...legislation would sweep away a World War I law enacted to ensure that munitions workers remain on the job and sober. But the change remains controversial 15 years after it was first recommended by a government committee. Critics claim that longer drinking hours will promote alcohol abuse. Supporters point out that Scotland, which dropped its restrictions in 1977, has found no increase in alcoholism. If Parliament approves the bill, as expected, the so-called dead afternoon will doubtless become more spirited...