Word: soberly
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...Prime Minister opened on a sober note...
...film is gifted Director Lewis Milestone's best since All Quiet on the Western trout (1930). It is also extremely effective propaganda. But sober and well-informed cinemaddicts may have some doubts about it. The Purple Heart is fiction, but it is fiction about some still rather foggy historical facts. As it is very persuasively played, it is likely to be accepted as truth by a great many people not all of whom will be able to judge where fact ends and fiction begins...
...sober military men still stood firm in their predictions of a long war against Japan. Even if the Japs lost Truk (which they will not until many foot soldiers have lost their lives taking it), or if Truk were bypassed, many bases remained for Admiral Koga's Navy: Singapore, Surabaya in Java, Balikpapan in Borneo, Saipan in the Marianas, Manila and the Japanese homeland bases...
...future abbots: "It beseemeth the abbot to be ever doing some good for his brethren rather than to be presiding over them. He must, therefore, be learned in the law of God, that he may know whence to bring forth things new and old; he must be chaste, sober, and merciful, ever preferring mercy to justice, that he himself may obtain mercy...
Next day I picks up th' 'poon again an looks at it cold sober. 'Sfunny thing, but dammed if it don't have that last year's test schedule on th' cover. Now dat's a useless thing to have there...