Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yore. In recent years, the regatta has turned into a weekend of drinking and attempted debauchery for prep-school students who swarm to the banks of the Charles. Ask any of them about which university won which race, and they probably won't be able to give you a sober answer...
That program -- a sober recitation of news highlights, followed by lengthy segments analyzing two or three major issues, all done leisurely, without flashy graphics or momentous music -- has become an ever more valued alternative to network news. Says MacNeil: "The competition driving the networks now -- CNN, Court TV, tabloid television, entertainment television and magazine shows -- the standards they use have gradually infected what used to be the strict, dignified standards of network news. Now those news shows -- they're like circus barkers who have to exaggerate and hype to haul them into the tent...
...nice to have a Kennedy back in Boston who will remain sober...
Some students said it was a pretty sober holiday weekend. "The wildest alcohol-related activity of which I've partaken this weekend was a healthy does of rum-butterscotch topping on my ice cream at Herrell's," joked Daniel G. Appel...
...infectious diseases, reflect broader trends that we may have been tracking and developing for weeks. Occasionally we go back to a seemingly small event of months ago, briefly noted at the time, that strikes us as ripe with human drama and moral implications, worthy of detailed digging and sober reflection. The suicide of Kevin Carter was such an event...