Word: soberness
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Cried Michigan's Arthur J. Vandenberg: "You might as well argue that a man can drink himself sober...
...found the majority are sober, quiet, homely men, with wives, children and mothers they adore, youngsters with sweethearts back home to whom they're longing to return, men who to our astonishment don't boast or chew gum, don't get fresh and who genuinely appreciate a friendly smile, a chat, a cup of tea, are ridiculously generous...
Suitable Match. Outside the Stadium entrances, in the long perambulatory corridor, the cardboard placards mounted on poles (a blown-up Dewey photograph; Dewey the People's Choice; Dewey Witt Win) were piled in chin-high clumps. They were the same nononsense, black-lettered placards which had decorated the sober-looking Dewey headquarters at the Stevens Hotel for two days. Delegates who had visited the businesslike headquarters to look in awe at the machinelike efficiency of the Dewey staff had already seen them...
...Priesthood. By 1903 he was a plebe at the Naval Academy, where he was known to his classmates as a sober young man, nicknamed "Sprew," who always got seasick on summer cruises. High in his class, he was selected to study electrical engineering at Schenectady. Afterwards he served briefly in China and returned to a shore-based job at Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock...
Reported the sober-sided Times of London: "The idea is current that Britain and the United States, being rich countries, have no interest in, or understanding of a poor country like Italy, but that Russia. . . is clearly cut out to be Italy's friend. The prompt resumption of diplomatic relations with Italy by the Soviet Government supports this idea and assists the tactics of the Communist Party, which aims at becoming the national party of Italy as it is in Russia...