Word: soberness
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...Stancil Johnson, a long-haired Santa Monica psychiatrist who serves as Frisbee's official historian, has an apparently sober explanation for the disks' popularity. They are, he says, "the perfect marriage between man's greatest tool-his hand-and his greatest dream -to fly." But even Johnson is hard-pressed to account for the latest development on the Frisbee front. Among the crowds at Copper Harbor was a bevy of "froupies," short for Frisbee groupies. They too seemed to want to have a fling...
...life should be fun; she must relish what she does in her anti-Roman freewheeling. She positively enjoys her self-inflicted death: and we are not saddened by it, but rather rejoice with her in thus outwitting Octavius. Miss Jens, however, traverses the play with little more than sober determination...
...most important dabblers in foreign exchange are not slick and selfish private operators but the sober-sided officers of banks and multinational corporations. Occasionally they try to turn a quick profit by capitalizing on oscillations in the value of one currency or another. But usually they are merely trying to protect a routine sale, loan or investment from loss due to an unexpected dip in some currency. Volkswagen, for example, takes in billions of dollars each year from U.S. sales. When the dollar quivered at the start of last summer's currency crisis, VW executives reportedly transferred as much...
...step to them spells continued hostility from China and a serious obstacle to the process of accommodation that Japan has successfully followed since the war to safeguard its far-flung supply lines and markets. This is not just the symptom of a passing "nuclear allergy." It is the sober assessment of a crowded island nation that knows it can be wiped out by a couple of H-bombs on Tokyo and Osaka and is not about to pay the vast economic and political price for nuclear status symbols that have as much reality as the Emperor's new clothes...
...festival atmosphere that prevailed outside Massachusetts Hall last month during a six-day occupation by PALC rapidly receded into the past after the building was re-occupied by the sober Administrators who have their peace-time offices there. But the dispute over Harvard's ownership of Gulf Oil stock which prompted 34 blacks to seize the building has been reopened by the decision to initiate disciplinary proceedings against 19 of the alleged occupiers...