Word: soberly
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...receive a divorced person, not even her daughter-in-law, the Duchess of Windsor. David himself could not break down that royal taboo when he tried two months ago. Instead, Mama, whose own taste in hats leans to the conservative, made him change his sporty green porkpie for a sober bowler...
...years, the Robert Ripleys and Richard Halliburtons confidently affirmed the fact. At last the sober, scholarly Smithsonian Institution solemnly confirmed it: some fish do climb trees...
...have learned to take such things well salted. Now, the booming light-plane in dustry is trying to sell planes, through department stores, to those who were never interested in them before. Were the planemakers and stores playing on the ignorance of their customers, overselling their wares? Many a sober booster of private flying was sure that was the case. Last week, at the third annual National Aviation Clinic in Oklahoma City, they said...
...kidnapping scare swept Mexico City. Rumormongers said that Mexican ninos were being stolen wholesale and sold to wives of returning U.S. soldiers. In some unexplained fashion, the patter of little brown feet was supposed to make the returning husbands happy. Sober El Universal suspected a "premeditated effort to provoke state collective unrest." Many fingers pointed at Acción National and other anti-administration, anti-U.S. groups...
...foreign policy more weight than they had been accorded in the U.S. : "We should now make it clear to the United States that we will march at their side in the cause that President Truman has defined, that we will add our strength to their strength, that their stern, sober efforts shall be matched by our own. If everything else fails, which we must not admit, here is the best chance of survival...