Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neruda was the Chilean consul in Spain when he met Federico Garcia Lorca, a poet who, Neruda writes in the Memoirs, was "the most loved, the most cherished of all Spanish poets, and he was the closest to being a child because of his marvelous happy temperament."
President Ford has a handicap estimated at 16 and is often known to play a Sunday breakfast round with other politicos at Washington's all-male Burning Tree golf club. Ford belted a drive further than Arnold Palmer at the opening ceremonies of the World Gold Hall of Fame and...
Vinnette Carroll, who wrote and staged Your Arms Too Short to Box with God, was responsible a few seasons back for a similar hit, Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope. She seems to have a feeling for the counterpoint of spirituality and sensuality that is characteristic...
Blumenthal taught at Princeton for three years, but scholarship was too tame for his combative temperament. He took a job as vice president of Crown Cork International, a bottle-cap manufacturer. In 1961, he secured an appointment as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. When the Kennedy Round...
(With his foul temperament agreeing best)