Word: soberly
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...naturally pessimists or reformers or radicals, neither are we intentionally superpatriots or heroes. We are simply sober American youths who wonder where the hell we are headed...
...news was not in the newspapers, though some of it got into the news pictures (see cut). But that was not the whole story. Some of the story was in what U.S. mothers & fathers thought and sometimes wrote of their dead boys-such brave and sober thoughts as these...
...American pioneers were often crusaders. But they were chiefly "solid, sober, cautious" citizens who firmly believed in hanging on to their scalps. Crafty pathfinders like Daniel Boone were not glamorous storybook characters; they were "heroes because they were . . . men who did not get lost...
...Dewey once again recalled the long history of New Deal internecine quarrels, pointing out that they went all the way back to the NRA. He asked: "What kind of a Government is this that even a war cannot make it sober down and go to work...
...Sober-minded Rumanians and neutral observers in Bucharest realize that the policy of the Red Army does not represent the policy of Moscow. But they have grave worries which go deeper than blind pessimism...