Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Counsel Ray Jenkins asked: "You are not a defendant lawyer, I take it. You are a prosecutor, is that right?" The question enabled Cohn to set the tone of his testimony. "I have been, up until this proceeding, sir," he said. Thereafter, he worked hard to keep his famous temper in check, to play the part of injured innocence. "We did not make charges," he insisted. "We told what the facts were as we saw them...
...repeated attacks of vomiting; reflexes like the knee-jerk were dulled or lacking; her hands and feet were blue and cold; she perspired so heavily that her bedclothes had to be changed soon after she fell asleep; her blood pressure skyrocketed and plummeted inexplicably; when she had a temper tantrum, which was often, she broke out in red blotches. But her strangest symptom sounded like something out of a fairy tale: no matter how hard she cried, there were no tears...
Cardinal Mercier of Belgium once said: "If in the days of Luther and Calvin the church had possessed a Pope of the temper of Pius, would Protestantism have succeeded in getting a third of Europe to break loose from Rome...
...balanced a team to want to debunk Gordon. "But a man without fault is dreadfully dull and also extremely improbable. What ... we asked ourselves, was this man really like?" He was a small, blue-eyed Scot whose charm was so great that even his enemies forgave his furious temper and Messianic pomposity. He detested formal society and despised money: often his first act on taking new office would be to cut his salary. He led scratch armies to victory all the way from Nanking to Equatorial Africa, but he never came near to winning his private battle with the world...
...ideas, it sometimes becomes tedious as entertainment. The book is episodic and disjointed and the French producers have not done enough to remedy this in their screen adaptation. Also much of the force of several scenes is diminished when the histrionics of the participants seem more like adolescent temper than mature emotionalism...