Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French officials are sober today, even if a bit hung-over from their months-long political binge. Presented by Monday's election with a Poujadist bloc of 51 seats on the far right and 153 Communist seats on the left, France's vital but anemic center finds itself further weakened while caught between two much-strengthened hostile parties. No single conceivable alliance has emerged with a majority or a claim to run the government...
...sense of security and a sense of human dignity." Nominated by Reuther and elected unanimously as expected, the new coalition's first president, stolid George Meany of the 74-year-old A.F.L., expressed his hope for the future. He told the convention: "We have got to give some sober thought today to ... taking our place in the community life of the nation...
...Calcutta provided the final crashing chord to a barnstorming tour which had succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of any campaigning vote-seeker. But while Moscow's good-will ambassadors swelled with complacency at the air of universal approval surrounding them, their Indian hosts had begun to entertain some sober second thoughts. Bursting with genial, jocular generalities all along the line of march, the fun-loving Red Rover Boys had progressively proved more and more forgetful of the fact that Nehru's India still hugs a determined neutralism close to its heart. In one breath they decried the West...
...Mamie drove slowly along Constitution Avenue in a Plexiglas-topped Lincoln, Ike broke his doctors' orders and waved strenuously to thousands of spectators lined along the curbs. Military bands thumped in greeting, while here and there "We Like Ike" signs festooned sober-faced Government buildings. When he stepped into the White House, which seemed drowsy as a pyramid after nearly two months, Washington found its focus again. More than any other President, Dwight Eisenhower had tried to distribute and delegate the awesome powers of his office. Yet, as all the world knew, the responsibility even in ; illness remained...
...with his fists, but elected what the modern delinquent calls a shiv (knife); that most of the gunplay in Dodge City was caused by non-cowboys; that Billy the Kid was a product of New York's Bowery; that Calamity Jane claimed that she never went to bed sober...