Word: soberness
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...Zealand, many a British newsman reported on the country with the open-mouthed naivete of a well-heeled dowager touring the slums. One reporter smugly confessed that she had always thought the Maoris, the civilized descendants of New Zealand's aboriginal tribes, lived in trees. Even the sober London Daily Telegraph said that the Maoris' dances "were rather like a fancy dress ball in a Turkish bath." Most London papers gleefully ridiculed the Maoris for dressing up in the costumes of their ancestors...
...that years of hard living have somewhat soured Britain's taste for the televised fol-de-rol of subversive hunting, for her recently completed Civil Service investigation seems, in retrospect, to have lacked the drama of its American counterpart. The sober temper of these investigations was reflected in an unemotional speech by Sir Hartley Shawcross, the Attorney General of the Labor Party between 1945 and 1951, at Columbia's Bicentennial celebration. The long speech, almost entirely ignored by the American press, summed up the methods and results of Britain's policy towards subversives since World...
...still the party atmosphere in the fraternities and at the Carnival Ball for non-fraternity men and freshmen. While the authorities have succeeded in repressing the wildness that once reigned during the Carnival by the limited invitation system, the students are anxious to be hospitable. Very seldom is a sober visitor asked to leave a party just because he has no invitation. The Dartmouth is a friendly animal, and during his time of big celebration he feels that a big and roaring party is successful. And it generally...
Outside this titillating company stands the stolid Turk. He does not need to be sold on antiCommunism. U.S. aid moves him to sober appreciation, not to riot. He considers it a privilege to fight Communism in Korea-and there is no neutralism...
Interim Note. In Anchorage, Alaska, the Times carried this classified ad: "YOUNG MAN . . . sober at present . . . not proud, will even take the janitor's job. Sixteen years schooling, same room, same class, married the teacher...