Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In Mexico City, Rosalynn displayed the even temperament and stamina she had shown on the campaign trail. Nothing seemed to throw her off stride, not even the 7,349-ft. altitude of Mexico City, which does in many tourists, nor a rash of antigovernment bombings that erupted just before her...
More was no martyr by temperament. In Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, he is a man splendidly fit for life, witty and compassionate, loving both God and His world. Unable to bring himself to consent to the Act of Succession, which legitimates Henry's divorce from Catharine...
Powell got a taste of what the job can do to its holder's temperament when he paid a courtesy call on Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen at the White House last week. Though Nessen asked reporters not to question Powell, they did so anyway. "This is my office...
Passionately articulate on Quebec, Lévesque is intensely guarded in his private life. By temperament he is a loner with few close friends. Separated for the past six years from his wife, he lavishes attention on his three grown children. Born in the bucolic Gaspé Peninsula region of...
After five husbands and a few flirtations, Actress Elizabeth Taylor has managed to collect a nice little box of rocks. Among her favorite gems: the 69.42-carat Cartier diamond, the 33.10-carat Krupp diamond and the Peregrina pearl that once belonged to Mary Tudor. Soon she will be slipping her...