Word: sobersidedness
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His third eye, he explains, is the result of a bullet he caught while fighting in Spain ("Now there's a bit of plastic set into my poor skull"). Jackman and his men "might have commenced full of humanitarian sentimentality. And then, perhaps, demon ideology, with its imperatives and...
All over the city, even though it was early in the season, businessmen deserted the office to cluster anxiously around barroom TV sets. Radios blared baseball at pedestrians on downtown sidewalks. It was more than the sobersided Detroit Athletic Club could stand. "We are impelled," announced the club's...
As viewed on the nation's TV screens, the reporters' clamor for presidential recognition sometimes seems riotous. Some of the newsmen are plainly overcome by the possibilities for personal publicity in the televised conference. Says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's sobersided Raymond P.
"Suddenly, splendidly, America has been captured by a man inspired," rhapsodized Rene MacColl, U.S. correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. "What a transformation has taken place in Washington. Where before there was doubt, dreariness and defeatism, now a great wave of excitement and eagerness has transformed the...
In France itself the major disappointment was at De Gaulle's failure to produce any new ideas for ending the Algerian fighting. At week's end, as the General moved slowly through Britanny on one of his periodic tours to test his hold over the French people, bagpipes...