Word: soberness
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...every team in the Ivy League is undefeated. It's that time of year again--coaches' hopes burgeon, each tempering outright enthusiasm with a sober assessment of the competition. As always, the 1980 Ivy football season assures nothing more than the unexpected, especially this year with six teams conceivably in the race for the championship. No one dares to place the Ivies in the realm of big-time football, but then again, at least all eight teams will compete, unlike...
...President, whose campaign instincts are often underrated, was aiming not so much at the audience in Madison Square Garden as the one before the TV sets across America. He was not trying to stun or startle them with innovative programs but rather to reassure them with a sober assessment of his own actions...
...Sober now, he set out to seek some income on April 26, 1979, by looking up an old Marine buddy, Jack McGregor, who was then executive vice president of Carey Energy Corp. Billy told McGregor that he could help Carey Energy secure Libyan oil. McGregor explained that his company was being purchased by a conglomerate named the Charter Co. and suggested that Carter make his pitch to the new owners...
Their secret, they divulge in sober tones, is that they do what they do to the best of their ability. "It's like punk rock music," Cheech pipes in. "The best musicians in the world can't play that crap. The best art in the world comes from the soul...
...festive spirit of Commencement has a longstanding heritage. Morison describes the development of Commencement from "a purely literary occasion" to a "sort of puritan midsummer's holiday." In 1681, when President Oakes perished shortly before Commencement, the authorities seeking a sober ceremony felt compelled to restrict students to a provision of one gallon of wine per man. Despite that one prohibitive graduation, the tradition of imbibement was propagated, climaxing in the "Plum cake scandal" of 1693, when kill-joy President Mather outlawed the tainted pastries, deeming the custom "dishonourable to the Colledge." Needless to say, in spite of various fines...