Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once a dashiki-clad radical, King, 55, recently adopted a sober tone and somber attire. Nevertheless, he let slip a few atavistic faux pas, such as saying that he preferred Fidel Castro to Ronald Reagan. More damaging in this heavily Catholic city, he implied, without offering evidence, that the late Humberto Cardinal Medeiros was antiSemitic...
...largest cities (Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia) and 15 others with populations over 100,000 will now be led by blacks. Goode, 45, who has a management degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, dresses in Main Line corporate fashion. He is sober to a fault, relying on position papers far more than polemics. Said Goode after his election: "People will see by my actions that I want to be mayor of all the people...
Some have driver's licenses and drive recklessly, thoughtlessly, or murderously, even while sober. Some enter college where they are confronted by ideas which challenge their society's and their personal values. Some under-21 year olds live apart from their parents in dormitories or apartments and do not protect themselves or their possessions or their friends. Some enter military service and find themselves ill-equipped to deal with the stresses, or of late, with combat. Some work to make money and botch their jobs totally or nearly...
...idea of the initiation isn't to get everybody drunk," the pressure was certainly there. From Ippolito's promise to the legends of other wild initiations, participants must have showed up at the clubhouse on Mt. Auburn St. expecting to sleep through their first class the next day. When sober members are repeatedly pressing glasses of whiskey or garden hoses of beer for immediate consumption, it must be difficult to decline...
...income tax during the years 1924-28, had decided he feloniously "attempted to evade & defeat" payment during three of those years. Now he was to be sentenced. As a concession to the solemnity of the occasion he had left off his jewelry, was wearing a comparatively sober pinchback suit of blue. He fondled a bandaged right fore-(trigger)-finger, sucked and sucked on his coughdrop...