Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Temper Fidelis. In Brisbane, Australia, a Supreme Court granted a divorce to Firewood Merchant Arthur H. Trulock after he testified that his wife made him sleep in a stable, bandaged her head and screamed that he had beaten her, paraded naked in the yard, ruined his business by intercepting customer orders, poisoned his chickens and dogs, threw his meals...
Truth was that it was too early for congratulations. The U.S. delegation had gone to Paris with some misconceptions about the temper of the rest of the NATO allies. In Washington shortly before leaving, Secretary of State Dulles had made it plain that he was counting on hard and fast acceptance of the U.S. plan to establish missile bases in Europe. Said he: "I don't favor these so-called agreements in principle." He had apparently given little weight to the talk of new East-West negotiations that had swept Europe in the wake of Russian Premier Bulganin...
...Jemmy Hirst was a wealthy, mid-19th century ex-tanner who developed an un-British distaste for the horse "excepting on the racecourse." Hippophobe Hirst went shooting mounted on a massive bull of "uncertain temper," and used in place of pointers "a crowd of vivacious and sagacious pigs, all of whom answered to their names." In the Hirst living room the conversation piece was a large coffin which Mr. Hirst used as a bar. He was 90 when he died; the coffin was finally emptied of potables and, filled at last with Hirst, was "borne to the grave by eight...
...will be a real contribution to labor-management relations." On the whole, George Meany and his colleagues grimly had to agree that Mitchell's program was the best possible cure. Faced with the fact that labor has lost a lot of friends, he could see, too, that the temper of Congress was even hotter than Mitchell's. Rather than face possible mass surgery from a congressional butcher knife-perhaps even an outcry in Congress for a federal right-to-work law-George Meany was prepared, however reluctantly, to take Physician Mitchell's prescription...
...Marxist attacks on Christianity," Miller stated, "taught the Church a lesson in keeping its temper and in discipline of debate." Although Mencken "spent a lifetime lambasting the Church," he said, "we will be worse off if we don't see his kind again...