Word: soberness
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...Sober admonitions come naturally to a man who dutifully supported the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and rose to become the party's propaganda chief in 1974. As the economy faltered in the late 1970s, however, Grosz converted to market economics and the notion of democratic reform -- under the party's aegis...
...after World War II but had not employed those weapons for aggressive purposes. "Why don't you trust me now?" Reagan asked. Gorbachev turned the question around: Why didn't Reagan trust him? The President said that any American leader must base policy not on trust but on a sober assessment of the other side's capabilities. Precisely, said Gorbachev: SDI could upset military "parity" and the strategic balance. "It looks," he added, "as though we've reached an impasse...
...society, we don't take alcohol too seriously. In sports, we laugh at it. It's all one big Lite-beer commercial." He's an alcohol counselor now, and the counselors have a pretty good pitching rotation. "I never really knew what it was like to pitch a sober inning," says Ryne Duren, the Yankee reliever of the early '60s. "When I was with the Yankees in the mid-'70s," says Sudden Sam McDowell, "they hired a baby-sitter to stop me from drinking. All that did was make it a challenge...
...engineer named Hiller (played with a wonderfully watery passivity by Bernard Hill) to act as their "bellman," or alarm-system neutralizer. His only virtue is his devotion to his stepson (Kieran O'Brien), who has no name but the one we impute to him: True. He is a wise, sober child, spunky and devoted to the man who takes responsibility for him when both are deserted by the child's mother...
...tenants made overtures to the organization at a local mosque several weeks ago, and the Muslims responded with around-the-clock patrols. Known for the fiery black nationalism preached by their leader Louis Farrakhan, the Muslims have transformed the complex. Since the appearance of the guards in their trademark sober suits and bow ties, the drug dealers have made themselves scarce...