Word: soberly
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...scene is repeated, somewhat more quietly, in proud, sober Ghent and in Bruges, lulled by its gentle chimes, in bustling, muscular Antwerp, in Liège under its pall of soot from the mines and the blast furnaces. Belgium has quietly achieved an almost incredible state: postwar prosperity. What is more, Belgium has largely done it by free enterprise. Or "planned freedom," as Belgians call...
...memoirs should be regarded as a further but redundant demonstration that a policy of sound principle and sober purpose ultimately will prove of more avail than one of protean extremism...
...particularly difficult one at Harvard. Council labors are, for the most part, hardly of the type that catch the imagination; Councilmen and candidates for office have been understandably squeamish about making a lot of noise about issues or their own qualifications for office. It has been a pretty sober affair, as undergraduates who voted last Thursday--or who didn't take the trouble to vote--can testify...
...that had come the report of Defense Secretary James Forrestal. Returning from his conference with top military strategists in Key West (TIME, March 22), Forrestal had gone to the White House to present two sober conclusions, which added up to one & the same conclusion: the U.S. must...
Father Riccardo Lombardi's "Crusade of Love" (TIME, March 1) marched on. In Naples of the volatile south, as in Milan of the sober north, the impassioned exhortations of the pale little Jesuit reached hundreds of thousands...