Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standing, clapping U.S. Congressmen. He had aged, of course, but Winston Churchill seemed hardly a shade less pink-cheeked, rocklike and John Bullish than when he spoke before the House and Senate during World War II. In 1941, just after Pearl Harbor, his mood had been one of sober yet shining elation: ". . . Best tidings of all, the United States, united as never before, has drawn the sword for freedom and cast away the scabbard." In 1943, after the victory in North Africa, he had exulted: "One continent redeemed." In 1952, under the clouds of another gathering storm, he spoke with...
...that other newspapers and magazines had recently declared for Eisenhower, the Times editorialized: "This widespread faith in General Eisenhower's fitness to be President is deeply sincere and wholly spontaneous . . . We are confident that he would use the great power of the United States bravely, but with a sober sense of values ... If Dwight Eisenhower should be nominated by the Republican Party ... we shall support him enthusiastically...
...Captain from Castile and Prince of Foxes bristled with swashbuckling Renaissance antics, and bustled down the old pay-dirt road to sales of more than 1,000,000 copies each. But before he became the darling of the cloak-and-swagger set, Author Shellabarger, a onetime Princeton professor, wrote sober-sided biographies. One of these. Lord Chesterfield and His World, published in Britain in 1935, is making a belated U.S. bow. Scholarly Author Shellabarger has taken a firm grip on a slippery subject: a man with the moral instincts of a chameleon and the temperament of an icicle...
AUGUST-Missing Links. In Vancouver, B.C., police sought four tosspots who had been pushing each other into a zoo moat to entertain the sober inhabitants of Stanley Park's monkey house...
...sober trio of judges was looking for the top dog, the one which could best meet the seven exacting requirements: nose for game, control and steadiness under the gun, ability to mark game, gentleness in "mouthing" the find, speed of retrieving and delivery, style and drive and, most important, "game sense...