Word: soberness
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...week's end, heads had cleared sufficiently after the concussive election news, for some sober stocktaking. What did Labor's victory mean to Britain now? Certainly not a Bolshevik revolution. The Laborites were advocates of gradual necessary social repairs, enemies of violent change. All the leaders were responsible men. Most of them had had Cabinet experience...
...Only three, by virtue of "long experience," are "pre-eminently qualified": sober, tomb-toned Raymond Swing; painstaking, calm-voiced Edward Murrow; ponderous, staccato-voiced Johannes Steel...
...have become very relativistic in the last two generations. Future educational historians will find in this book, sober and thoughtful as it is, more relativity than carries easily...
...plenty sore at the civilians," one guy began confidentially. Horn tried not to be snotty. He drank and drank but he was cold sober when he finally left the place and walked the girl home...
...constant -and inaccurate-use of "Hun."* This practice has done much to build the legend of Vansittartism, misconceived as a ferocious intent to wipe every last German from the earth's face. Yet Bones of Contention follows the line of Vansittart's former books in sober, well-documented, closely reasoned advocacy of a hard peace for Germany. Vansittart's flashes of hatred are incidental to his solid analysis of how the Germans got the way they are and what to do about them...