Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ernie King's reputation as a "sundowner" (seagoing for martinet) was legendary in the service. In the prewar Navy, where the work was sometimes slack, shore leaves plentiful, he ran a taut command from sunrise to sundown, often ordered gunnery practice on weekends. His drive−like his temper−was merciless. In 1926, while directing the salvage of the submarine 8-51, sunk with 34 dead in the Atlantic off Block Island, Captain King was advised by an admiral that he would never be able to get the submarine into a relatively shallow drydock. "Sir," replied Ernie King...
Without boastfulness, Dick Richards told the conference that he understood the House temper on foreign aid as well as any man alive. If his committee had not made some cuts, said he, the House might have slashed much more drastically. For the sake of continued aid, he added, he would rather risk opposition...
...named 40-year-old Defense Minister U Ba Swe (rhymes with hay), known to his friends as Kyagi-"The Big Tiger." (The nickname, according to a wifely indiscretion, derives not only from the fact that he was born on Monday, "the day of the tiger," but also from "his temper.") A colleague of U Nu since the '30s, when both were leaders in the anti-British activities of Rangoon University students, U Ba Swe narrowly escaped execution during World War II when the Japanese discovered that he had been using his position as chief of their puppet "civil defense...
Unruffled at first, Hagerty grew tense as the prospect of an operation drew closer. But under the strain, he worked energetically-and seldom gave way to his short temper as he shot the facts along. In the Saturday dawn, he read a Washington Post and Times Herald editorial righteously observing that "the White House Staff will do well to continue its policy of keeping the people frankly and completely informed." Snapped Hagerty: "What the hell do they think I've been doing...
...conclusion seems inescapable that a large proportion of these people are 'treated' by the doctor just because they are tiresome or unhappy . . . Only by grotesque mental gymnastics can they be made out to be ill in any other sense. In fact, the stealing, bedwetting, bad-tempered children whom, as magistrates, we refer for psychiatric treatment, are diagnosed as sick by their very stealing, bed-wetting and bad temper. But what can we say about the parents of these children, some of whom also consent to receive 'treatment' for themselves? In what sense can they be said...