Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawyer Pflimlin, whose name (pronounced roughly Fleemlan) means "Little Plum" in his native Alsatian patois, is a textile worker's son who joined the new Catholic center party, the M.R.P., after returning from the war in 1945. His impressive oratory, bad temper and enormous energy have led colleagues to dub him "The Mendès-France of the M.R.P." Like most Alsatians, he is solidly pro-European. Along with several other Catholics, he recently protested French atrocities in Algeria. His success in forming a government depends on whether the Socialists decide to participate on his terms, which he summarized...
...where many a congressional head has been turned by headlines and TV time, McClellan brings a special kind of justice. It is the personal code of a man who has had to learn the hard way to control his strength, who has had to beat down wild winds of temper, and learn that the law-in whose cold virtue he once sought escape from a world that used him cruelly-must be tempered by understanding...
...Already." Moreover, John McClellan has finally brought his temper under control. In 1954 he returned to Arkansas to run for re-election against Fair Dealing ex-Governor Sid McMath, his bitterest political enemy. McMath knew just how to get McClellan's goat: accuse him of being a pawn of the powerful Arkansas Power & Light Co. McClellan's conservatism has often paralleled that of A.P. & L., but McMath was among the few people in Arkansas who professed to believe that John McClellan was, or could be, anybody's pawn...
Lucky Jim's 35-year-old creator is foremost among a group of postwar writers, e.g., John Wain, John Osborne, Thomas Hinde, Peter Towry, John Braine, who have given British writing in the '50s a specific trend and a unique temper...
...managed, however, to make a good impression on some of his colleagues and fellow-townsmen by his generosity and good temper, and his mother exclaimed, after the execution, "Yes, they hanged my saintly Billy! He was a bit of a scamp right enough, but a good son to me; the best of the brood, except Sarah, and no murderer...