Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think about challenging the party leadership, but he added blandly: "One never rules out any possibility about the future." Bevan also had an answer to the second question worrying the British: Is Labor swinging left? The Labor Party Conference had shown, he said, "a very substantial degree of radical temper-very much more so than in recent years. It looks as if the movement is gathering strength for another quite rapid surge forward...
...have reached a new plane of serenity, almost of self-detachment." Four years in the White House have sharpened his political ear, toughened his belief in himself as a political strategist. But along with this has come a new warmth and understanding. Gone are the occasional flashes of temper that were once the terror of his staff-and of his opponents. They have been replaced by an equanimity and inner ease that is reflected in his desire to campaign chiefly on the record of his administration-and to respond to Democratic attacks only when they impugn or falsify that record...
...quote from the latter-day Sir Winston's Blenheim prose palace, the six-volume, 2,561-page Marlborough, His Life and Times. John was slim and handsome, brave as a lion, as full of twists as a corkscrew. He was ambitious beyond belief, but never lost his temper or learned to spell. Through sheer brilliance he worked himself up to the rank of general. But it was not until Queen Anne came to the throne that John Churchill had the chance to astonish Europe. And even then, he would never have succeeded without the backing of his amazing wife...
...from pushing the Israeli-Arab conflict into the background, the Suez crisis, with its temper-shortening tensions and attention-diverting demands, was likely to provoke more probing and more shooting in the days to come...
...Downing Street than most of his critics and mourners recognized. His Tory critics were of no mind to risk bringing him down at the cost of new elections, and there was no other Tory at hand to replace him. Furthermore, Sir Anthony's un-Edenish tone and temper during the first days of the crisis, and his subsequent softening, could be understood and accepted by many Britons. In the first place, a very broad band of British public opinion was genuinely and deeply angered by Nasser's seizure; any British spokesman using less than strong language would have...