Search Details

Word: soberness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...review board did a very important and highly successful job educating itself and exercised sober judgement," Wald said...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: DNA, Eventually | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

...helped by an exchange of nationalistic incidents earlier this year. A few days after an Aeroflot official in Washington was arrested on a charge of drunken driving, a Pan Am employee in Moscow was accused by Soviet police of the same offense-even though he was cold sober. His case is still pending, presumably awaiting the outcome of the case against the Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Biggest, But Hardly Best | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...Jeff Zax gives an excellent performance as Pseudolus, obsessed with one thing: getting his freedom. He conceives a plot to get the girl for his master Hero and his life for himself, circumventing Roman tradition and the captain Miles Gloriosus (among others) in the process. Zax has about one sober moment on stage when, as Prologus, he sets the scene and asks for the blessing of Thespis. But there is a nuttiness in his eyes which leaves you with the feeling that he's not all that serious. It turns out that he wasn...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: That's entertainment | 11/12/1976 | See Source »

...conference at least lived up to its name, "A Call to Action." Through three days of sober and sometimes tense deliberations, the delegates passed a sweeping five-year plan for political action in support of such causes as nuclear disarmament and better housing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A 'Call' by Catholics | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...troubles. "Nobody wants to print the fuckin' truth," he says. Although they had never met, Dapper had an ongoing feud with the elegant Boston Globe columnist, the late George Frazier '32. "He's where he belongs," O'Neil says. "I pissed on his grave one night...sure, I was sober.... He was a fag with that fuckin' flower...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: Rider on a Storm | 10/16/1976 | See Source »

Previous | 227 | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | Next