Word: sobersidedness
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Most of these books fell afoul of U.S. obscenity laws. But pirated editions ap peared in the more literate U.S. drawing rooms. Soon, not only a band of hysterical disciples and a handful of choosy intellectuals (T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Osbert Sitwell, Edmund Wilson) regarded Miller as a talented...
The first shot for the Army, which is strong for the merger, was fired across the long, mahogany table in the Senate caucus room by sobersided Robert Patterson, Secretary of War. Like the first shot in a bombardment, it was to fix the range. The future peace of the world...
For 14 years sobersided U.S. judges have muttered about the legality of Nevada's easy divorces. But armies of U.S. citizens went to Reno anyhow. Eventually, like the bull market of the fabulous '20s, Nevada divorce was accepted as a sound and logical American institution. Last week the...
In Beirut, diplomats labored and negotiated. General Georges Catroux, rushed in as trouble shooter for General Charles de Gaulle and the French Committee, worked late, his sunken cheeks grey with fatigue, his deep-sunk eyes blazing with anger at "the plot." The existence of "the plot"-to build up British...
His book is a painstaking, sobersided examination of the U.S. two-party system and its leaders. Advancing the thesis that the most successful U.S. political leaders have been masters of the art of "group diplomacy"-the bringing together of various interests-he comes to some shrewdly simple conclusions about Republicans...