Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, even in the face of great adversity, social advancement is possible. In conclusion, then, the American Dream--if feared dead in sober society--lives on and thrives if only in a drinking game...
...late on a Friday afternoon I call Graffix--the company best-known for its designer bongs--hoping to catch someone off guard, or better yet, stoned. But when a young guy picks up the phone and I tell him I'm a Crimson editorialist, his laughter is remarkably sober...
Students said they relished seeing Harvard's usually sober Nobel laureates--Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow, Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach and Lipscomb--take part in the ceremony...
...been in America, but life did not much improve on those rare occasions when Frank's father Malachy found work. As McCourt recalls in a spunky, bittersweet memoir called Angela's Ashes (Scribner; 364 pages; $24), his dad was both a kindly parent and a world-class rummy. Sober enough during the week, on paydays Malachy McCourt would guzzle away his wages at a pub and, late Friday night, stagger home, penniless. There, while his wife Angela wept and railed, he would coax his sons into singing old patriot tunes and roar that they must be ready...
Kerry, a Yale graduate, communicates a more sober, senatorial demeanor. In past debates, Kerry found himself explaining the intracacies of the governor's frequent quips...