Word: soberness
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Having spoken, King Peter motored home. Next day the London press, led by the sober-sided Times, called him defiant, a flouter of Churchill, one who "threatens grave embarrassment to the British Government." A spokesman of the Government called the royal statement, issued without his Government's sanction, "unconstitutional." In Belgrade, some 50,000 of King Peter's subjects shouted: "Down with the destroyer of unity, King Peter! Down with the Fifth Column émigrés...
Next day, the Post-Times ran a sober front-page apology, added that "naturally, Mr. Whitehurst does not continue to work here...
...route he gossiped with policemen, service-station operators, hotel clerks, salesmen, found all of them discussing military reverses with sober realism. Concluded Morse: "Almost everyone I saw-believes that you can't win all of the time. They felt sorry for our military leaders who were in difficulty, and were not angry with them and had not lost faith in them. They were sympathetic, but worried...
...making them less sensitive to shocks. He found that usually he could cure their taste for liquor only by curing their neuroses through psychotherapy. In very rare cases, a cat gradually worked itself out of its fears after repeated drinking. When it began to feel its normal self while sober, it usually went on the wagon...
Akweke Abyssinia Nwafor Orizu, of Manhattan, is a tall, black, sober young man of 24 who calls himself "Prince Orizu." He uses the title only to impress whites with the fact that Africa has traditional governments of its own. His hearers are usually sufficiently impressed to ask what he is prince of. His answer: Nnewi...