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Word: soberly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was a good deal kinder than the night Bessie Braddock M.P. berated Churchill for being drunk. Churchill replied that in the morning he would be sober, but she would still be ugly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Where Have All the Insults Gone? | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...local pub, marries into the aristocracy, and even becomes a passing pal of the rotund monarch his intimates refer to as "Kingie." Mr. Franklin, as the author calls him, ostensibly dug his huge fortune from a silver mine at Tonopah, Nev. Gradually, though, it emerges that this sober, self-educated man had earlier been a desperado, a gunman allied with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Inexorably, his scapegrace past catches up with the nouveau aristocrat of Norfolk. Fortunately, he has thought to pack his two .44 Remingtons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee-Panky | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...TITLE character (Dudley Moore) is neither tall nor handsome. He does not have a job, and he is an alcoholic. But he is also worth an awesome amount of money, which means he doesn't have to be tall, handsome, sober or employed. This movie unabashedly explores the possibilities of money no social consciousness here, no contrast scenes to show rich versus poor...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Rich Little Rich Boy | 7/24/1981 | See Source »

When Aunt Fm came there to live she was a young pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparkle from here eyes and left them a sober gray: they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Years of Heaven | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...procession forms that fills up two lanes of spacious St. Bernard Avenue. The musicians, a dozen, whose numbers will grow with late arrivals, make a loose formation. The second-liners-young and old, black and white, genteel and funky, sober and not entirely so-press in upon the band's flanks, spill onto the sidewalks, straggle across the avenue's landscaped divider. Leading it all is a stately, gray-haired man in a frock coat and a silvered, tasseled sash, a spangled umbrella furled under his arm, a top hat held over his heart; and, alongside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: Jazzman's Last Ride | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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