Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this year's political ads are surprisingly sober, businesslike and to the point. Gone, for the most part, are the warm, fuzzy "image ads" of campaigns past -- candidates frolicking with kids on the beach. There is little of the slick propagandizing of such ads as the famous anti-Goldwater spot from 1964 (a little girl with a daisy, interrupted by a mushroom-shaped cloud). Even the biting sarcasm that characterized the '88 campaign is largely missing: Bush's ironic use of clips showing Michael Dukakis taking a tank ride, or Dukakis' satiric depiction of Bush media advisers cynically discussing...
True education diversity can exist at Harvard only when all groups in society are on equal educational footing. Until then, it is better to accept the sober fact that it's not Harvard's fault that certain groups are underrepresented, just as as we recognize that Harvard contributed nothing to the growing representation of Asian Americans...
...broken with a bat, is exactly the kind of guy who makes getting out so problematic. Although he acknowledges some qualms about cracking the heads of close friends who want out of the gang, he has a simple technique for dealing with his conscience. "I've never done it sober," he admits sheepishly. "Only time I do it is when I'm high or drunk and you know you just get going with the guys and get yourself really worked...
...seconds, though in a few of the 2,500 known species male and female may remain locked together for more than an hour. They show every sign of ecstasy, but do they feel it? Mosquito Unit head Barnard looks pained. This is not the sort of question sober scientists are supposed to concern themselves with, and besides, there's nothing in the literature about it. "Well," he finally admits with a sigh, "they do have a central nervous system...
Other times, though, he is darkly sober as hetouches the wooden mouse on his desk and recallswitnessing the cervical dislocation method...