Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip was the first U.S. presidential helicopter flight. Actually, Eisenhower is no whirlybird newcomer; as NATO commander (1951-52) he racked up many copter hours inspecting troops and installations in Western Europe. * Asked the Boston Globe's Herbert Kenny: "Will Ike find rapport / at Newport? / Will his temper distort / at Newport? / Would the weather dare thwart / his transport of sport / the day they escort / Ike to the seaport of Newport...
...India for the present. In Paris, apparently unmoved by the news, his wife Ingrid Bergman had a happy, tearful reunion with pretty, 18-year-old Jennie Ann, her daughter by Dr. Peter Lindstrom. Ingrid showed the wide-eyed girl the Lido, the Louvre and Versailles, lost her temper only once to photographers who dogged them: "Can't you leave my miserable life alone...
Citation: "As philosopher-in 1929 in The Modern Temper-he brilliantly analyzed the condition of man in the modern world. Now in the 1950s, by the grace of his intellectual power, imagination and humanity, he has used it to the benefit of the whole world...
...11th, 3-2. Temple spotted the official scorer, Sportswriter Earl Lawson, in the clubhouse. "What was I supposed to do with that ball?" snapped Temple. "Shove it in my ear?" Said Lawson: "Grow up, John." Temple started swinging. The brief fracas cost Lawson one black eye. Temple a temper-cooling $100 fine...
...office from his Sutton Place apartment, usually carries a bulging briefcase full of last night's homework. He rarely goes out at night, seldom entertains, indulges in no hobbies, has never been known to take a real vacation. His desk is clean, his decisions swift, his temper always even...