Word: choleric
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...under Harry Truman's nose. That morning, Acheson, Louis Johnson and an assortment of advisers and high brass gathered in the President's office with their mixed emotions. Mr. Truman reacted with growing choler. The meeting grimly discussed the matter, and the President and Secretary Acheson discussed it again in the afternoon...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...