Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distinguished visitor gave his first press conference last week in Manhattan, Americans saw an extraordinarily mild-eyed, 69-year-old prelate whose six-foot height was dissembled in an habitual stoop of age. His was not the constrained mildness of a prince of the church whose natural fierceness of temper has been beaten and battered into benignity. It was a natural gentleness refined by devotion, austerity and great human sympathy. And there was a sense of easy power about him, fitting as comfortably as his open prelatical coat and apron, his greavelike buttoned black gaiters. The Archbishop of York...
...Jones is realist enough to know that moral desire is not enough to constitute a program, and Professor Becker does not kick the fellow who is ready with the blueprint out his Cornell study window. Different in temper and approach, Becker and Jones can nevertheless be reconciled and harmonized. They want the same thing: a four-power agreement among the Russians, the Chinese, the Americans and the British. They want the agreement to be moral in content. Whether they reckon with the possibility that moral unity may prove to be a pious dream in a world that includes both communists...
...which were put into effect. . . . She came to regard the New Deal as totalitarian in design and stifling to enterprise. But her attention drifted presently to foreign affairs, where free and progressive feelings did not entail the embarrassment of dealing with facts close at hand. . . . Her estimates of the temper of America have been grandiosely inaccurate...
Necessity's Child. Many of his inventions were similarly mothered by necessity. Others were caused by his hot temper. Example: He quarreled with the one company able to supply his plant with badly needed spindles. Then he not only invented his own, but wrote a lengthy treatise on why his were better, and finally started to sell them in competition. Sometimes he invents for the fun of it, i.e., his butter slicer, or to keep his mind sharp. Once he was badly pinched for a special steel to fill an order for tank axles for an auto company...
...Finland, of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; he has no profound ideas about the Balkans or Eastern Europe or the Near East or China. In general he seems content to take whatever proposals the White House and the State Department send down, amend them to suit the Senate's temper that week, and pass them...