Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alternative appeared to be the 1989 New Yorker Diary. The ad promises that its "50 all-time classic" cartoons will "start each day with a smile." But such an enforced daily dose of risibility struck me as being a little like wearing a lampshade at a party while completely sober. Esquire is another competitor in this smile-button sweepstakes. Its diary boasts cartoons and ads drawn from the magazine's issues of 1939. Not, however, exactly the world's most fun year. Somehow the memory of Nazi troops pouring into Poland might mar my enjoyment of next Sept. 1. Others...
...result of this failure, Smith says, the "designated driver"--the member of a group who stays sober and drives the others home--has become "the concept of the future...It's the easiest way for people to go ahead with their lives and still make a responsible decision...
...December, Winsten launched the Project because he felt the "Public [was] primed and ready to respond." According to a Gallup poll, designated driving has become more acceptable in recent years. About 91 percent of Americans support the idea of the designated driver and 78 percent are willing to stay sober and drive sometimes, the 1987 poll showed. Winsten also notes the increase in taxi and designated driver use among the young...
...series came, in 1986, one of the first designated driver programs in the country, sponsored by WBZ-TV and more than 200 Massachusetts restaurants. In this program, waiters explained the concept of the designated driver to customers and offered free non-alcoholic drinks to those who agreed to stay sober and drive their companions home...
...deference to others, the small humiliations of a perpetual office seeker are all behind him. As President, as that man at the big desk in the Oval Office, Bush will now have to articulate to what ends he plans to harness that ambition. For as , Bush said, contemplating the sober weight of his overwhelming victory, "There's lots of work...