Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very much want to let you know with how much interest, admiration and appreciation I have read the article on The Netherlands [TIME, May 13]. ... [Your] associates have done a splendid job, for not only have they accurately reported on the present temper of the country, but they also have caught quite a lot of the permanent essence of the Dutch nation, and expressed it in a very readable form...
...spite of the truce, engineers and trainmen did not go back to work until they had heard from their union bosses- and the word was slow in coming. They made it evident that Harry Truman was not their boss. The temper of the men who have been called "the aristocrats of labor" was clearly for a show of their power. Many grumbled because the strike had not come off as planned: "This was our chance, and we've muffed it." At a trainmen's meeting in New York City, announcement of the postponement was roundly booed. Hudson & Manhattan...
Middleton's aggressiveness will be a change from Atkinson's urbane inquisitiveness. Colleagues are curious to see whether Middleton will check his shoulder chip at the Russian frontier. Says National Correspondent James ("Scotty") Reston, himself a Times topnotcher: "Moscow will be good for his temper. It will teach him patience or kill...
Wilde, he declares, was a great doctor, although his detractors have put him down as a mere provincial medico. He was certainly no saint, and his quick temper and generally unwashed appearance made him act and look like even less of one. "Why are Dr. Wilde's nails black?" asked Dublin wags. "Because he scratches himself." But his Aural Surgery (1853) was the "first textbook of importance" on the subject. He was Ireland's first Surgeon Oculist in Ordinary to the Queen. The eye-&-ear hospital he established in Dublin in 1844 was for years the only...
...mother," said Oscar Wilde later, "loved him very much, and [he] died with his heart full of gratitude and affection." Says Dr. Wilson: he had "only two faults-his bad temper and his mistresses...