Word: soberness
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...such festive days as Easter, José makes early and serious preparation, selecting his assistants with care. He needs 60 strong men, sober, to handle the bells in both towers. When all are in place, he takes his position on the cathedral roof midway between the towers, where he can look through a skylight at the cathedral altar...
...sober second thought, conservatives guessed that the Cullen Foundation would net no more than $50 million after production costs. True Texans disowned such small talk. Their guess was well over $100 million, putting the Cullen Foundation among the country's three or four largest...
...reserve nor her mother's dazzling charm. Last week, as she stood unobtrusively at her father's elbow, she frequently seemed plain bored. But those who looked sharp could catch an occasional rare smile, lighting her face like a searchlight, or see her knit her brow in sober perplexity over some paradox of Empire in an official's talk...
...first springtime of the new peace last year, U.S. women shopped giddily for Easter finery. This year, things were different. Shopping was definitely sober...
...Hearst syndicate counters neatly by a campaign against obscene literature to prove that it is on the right side. For this sop they are told to "clean their own house" and the battle goes merrily on while the newspapers' circulation climbs. Whatever the reason for the inability of sober-minded Boston to cope with the greatest lack in its society, the opposing factions seem to have split the pie. Bostonians now get murder with their coffee and morals with their tea, all the while remaining blissfully ignorant of what goes on outside the city limits...