Word: soberness
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...sober, grey-haired men who run the nation's railroad unions made methodical plans last week for a strike which-if it ever came off-would be the most daring, gigantic, inconceivable strike in all U.S. history...
...National Broadcasting Co. celebrated its isth birthday last week-15 years during which it has become the U.S.'s most continuously audible institution. In a new, copper-lined studio-theater in Manhattan's Radio City a select and sober audience heard two hours and 45 minutes of air festival, carried over all 243 stations of the Red and Blue networks...
...morning and the sight of cold bayonets chilled the ardor of strikers and nonstrikers alike. Gates were barred to them. Mr. Hill was forced to vacate. After officially firing every man jack in the place, Colonel Jones and officers of the Air Corps began rehiring workers from the sober crowd which stood outside, picking those who were on the payroll before the strike on Sept. 30, whether union or nonunion. By afternoon, half the plant's normal personnel had been restored and work was humming...
...broad outlines of the book serve admirably to draw together the divergent threads which have been unravelling all over the Washington landscape. It brings out the sober facts about how much butter we will have to sacrifice to get enough guns. It is carefully documented, and goes into thorough detail. But the abundance of facts, and the assumption that the reader can supply the general economic background necessary to understand the relation between scores of separate conclusions makes this guide to the mazes of Defense tough going for the layman. He may wish that his author had given more thought...
...Krol under the bar and go into Heidon," grunted his sober friend, Wun Lung Gong. "The game isn't till tomorrow and I'll have to Carey you to it, anyhow. That's the waitress...