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Word: choler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is the last of my columns," he wrote. "A column is heady stuff for the ego. The heckling of bigots is the best sport this earth affords. . . . And it is an advantage to a man of intellectual choler to have ... a weekly oblong where he can divest himself of the indignation occasioned by the antics of his brother-imbeciles. But all this, I yield, and gladly. For my column has been a failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Off-His Chest | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...Government doctor in the little village of Al Korein, north of Cairo, reported some patients with vomiting, cramps and diarrhea. Four days later, ancient, crowded Egypt knew that it had an outbreak of Asiatic choler, the first since 1902, when cholera swept all Egypt, killing 34,595 people (mortality: 85%). Eventually the 1902 outbreak reached Europe and America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pestilence in Egypt | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Bingham, can restore Mr. Durocher to baseball and society. We humbly suggest that the Harvard Athletic Association take immediate steps to sign Leo Durocher as first assistant to baseball coach Dolph Samborski. You, Mr. Bingham, must save Leo from the Mexican peso and the Yankee choler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter | 4/11/1947 | See Source »

Modest, methodical Oscar II has a collaborator's temperament, as well as talent. If he quite lacks his grandfather's color ("I am rather uninteresting") he also lacks the old man's choler. His private life also lacks the gaudy touch. "I guess I have never been young enough," he confesses, "to enjoy night clubs. I don't understand what goes on after 1 a.m.-but I doubt if anything very profound is said." A family man (he has been married twice), he does not smoke, seldom drinks, spends as much time as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical In Manhattan, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

France spoke her piece to the Big Three last week. What she had to say did not suit the power-thinkers of Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks. But, considering General Charles de Gaulle's recent choler, the French attitude was surprisingly good-tempered-and too cogent to be ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Charlie's Challenge | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

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