Word: sobering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally worked out, the bill was far more sober than the free-spending "Christmas tree" measure conjured up by the Senate, with its $800 personal tax exemption. While it is more inflationary than President Nixon would like, the bill does postpone most of the giveaway provisions for two years, the period that Nixon considers crucial in the fight against inflation. Nixon is thus expected to accept the compromise...
...Enjoy the Revolution." The product is Cupid's Quiver, a $3.50 package of twelve sachets of liquid douche concentrate that is offered in two floral scents (orange blossom and jasmine), as well as two flavor scents (raspberry and champagne). The ads were created by Marsteller Inc., a relatively sober agency that includes among its accounts IBM, Dannon Yogurt and Fruit of the Loom. Vogue banned any hint of the flavors, and the ad in that magazine showed only the floral scents...
...knighted given a bit of good will on both sides. There are other causes which will take more time and fewer snap judgments. Finally there are some of the deep fundamental wrongs which can't be settled by "sit ins" or riots but can only be achieved by a sober, serious desire to work together at all ages as concerned persons who have screened their own integrity...
...perpetrators of this deed would probably never be caught and might at the moment be drinking still more whiskey and bragging to their friends about the incident. But if any of them happen to read this letter, I would only like to ask them, now that they are sober, if this is their idea of "freedom," of "law and order," and of "protection of private property." If so, an American version of Kristallnacht cannot be far away...
...season should be enough to sober any man, if not cause him to think seriously about the effectiveness of his system. Harvard had a losing year, but it is not a losing team. Farneti will not let it happen again. Will Yoviesin...