Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York last month . . . I gave an interview to a representative of the London Sunday Times, who imputed to me opinions which I have never held, and statements which no sober man would make and, it seems to me, no sane man believe. That statement that I or anyone else in his right mind would choose any one state against the whole remaining Union of States, down to the ultimate price of shooting other human beings in the streets, is not only foolish but dangerous. . . . The idea can further inflame those people who might still believe such a situation possible...
...first in 1,878 years. To the British it brought the loss of a 10,460-square-mile base in the Mediterranean-and relief from a burden they had snatched up with imperial optimism 31 years ago. To the Arabs, it brought a tautening of determination and a more sober assessing of their chances for victory...
...running gag"* much admired by Hollywood experts is built up in a millionaire who, when drunk, is Chaplin's dearest friend; when sober, has him thrown out of the house. A new gag: Chaplin trying to light his cigar but succeeding only in lighting the cigar which another character is waving airily before his face. As in all Chaplin films there are touches of smut: Chaplin as a busy street cleaner seeing an endless troop of mules, hurrying in the opposite direction, only to meet an elephant; Chaplin acting girlish toward a prize fighter stripping for battle...
...death raised international suspicion and fueled dissident activity in the Southeast Asian country, where he had long been considered the primary foe of President Ferdinand Marcos, who has governed the nation with martial law since 1972. At Harvard, the former Filipino senator's slaying has been a source of sober reflection. The leader spent his last three years in exile in Cambridge, where he held fellowships at the CFIA between 1980-82 and at MIT last year. Aquino came to Cambridge following heart surgery in California, an operation that had secured him release from a Filipino prison where...
Compared with that spoof, Bylines is almost as sober and magisterial as the Times. Bernard Weinraub still reports for the Times from Washington, or at least he did before this book came out. His story opens with an endearingly manic-depressive editor who leaps naked from an eleventh-floor window before it can be determined whether the man resembles either A.M. Rosenthal or Arthur Gelb. The event touches off a torrid competition for the newly vacant editorship among a B-movie cast of newsroom characters: the likable but alcoholic deputy managing editor, the sober but inexperienced female national editor...