Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russell should take a sober look at the facts. TIME estimated the marijuana smokers among all U.S. dance musicians as not more than 20%, guessed that drinking dance musicians might outnumber the marijuana smokers. This still leaves plenty of room for sober clarinetists...
Then came war with Russia. No propagandist fanfare accompanied 1942's sober figure of 15.2 per 1,000-a rate of decline almost as great as that of World War I. Last week, however, inventive Dr. Goebbels, announcing the figures for the first three months of 1943, proudly displayed "a surprising increase" of 11.4%, not in the birth rate, but in births. He did not volunteer the explanation: no sudden increase in "birthjoy," but inclusion for the first time of Nazi-occupied territories...
...camp of Dachau, his hands were tied behind his back and he was then strung up by the hands from a tree. The story of his torture, told haltingly by the boxer himself, plus shots of exactly how the Nazis went about it, are memorable moments in this short, sober British documentary. It shows how the British are helping Austrian and German antiFascists get back at Hitler...
Other productions on the evening's program were "The Reverend's Advice," staged by the third platoon and featuring H. L. "Happy" Graves who literally took the shirt of of W. B. Brown's and Fred Hanle's backs; "A Sober Day at Harvard", a satire given by the second platoon; "They'll Bear Watching", offered by platoon eight; two skits, "Old and New Watch" and "Hitler's Speech on the Harvard Communications school", presented by platoon...
...years ago sober, scholarly William McChesney Martin left his $48,000-a-year job as president of the New York Stock Exchange, entered the Army at $21 a month. Private Bill Martin learned that a man who had worked 18 hours a day in civilian life (as he had) could climb fast in the Army. Painstakingly he learned to shoot a rifle, even tried to pay the Government for extra practice ammunition. In his tent at nights, he studied military histories, textbooks on strategy...