Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...release of Nelson Mandela? As the A.N.C. prepared for its first meeting with the government of President F.W. de Klerk -- an April 11 session has already been called off by the A.N.C. in protest at the Sebokeng shootings -- the spiral of violence was forcing Mandela to face a sober reality: that he may have wielded more moral authority as the world's most famous prisoner than he does as a political leader in his second month of freedom...
Furthermore, says Miegel, the concerns about Germany's economic dominance of the European Community are overstated. "A sober examination," he says, "reveals that this economic giant is by European standards a medium-size country in which the population is declining and at the same time beginning...
...staunchest ally. They also claim that the music is derived from a drinking song popularized at London's Crown and Anchor Tavern. The tune's highs and lows are, well, too high and low. Bass-baritone George London contends the Banner is "impossible to sing if you're sober." Opera singers have the best chance to cover the octave plus a fifth. But the soprano who starts a half-note too high will shatter glass and her hopes of auditioning for the Met by the time she gets to the "land of the free." She can forget getting deep enough...
There is obviously that danger. I hope that the political organizations that have been legalized now will be able to make people more sober in their expectations. I mean, even when apartheid is done away with, people must not expect that suddenly when they were homeless, tomorrow because we were free...tomorrow they will have a house. It is important that our people recognize that we are still going to have to struggle to translate that freedom into tangible results...
However faint the sunrise was, I appreciated it. I have not seen too many sunrises in my life--certainly not many sober, or after just waking. And I had never watched one while taking an exam at five in the morning...