Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combat capacity in West Germany, McNamara declared: "It is absolutely untrue, and you are the first that ought to know it. I'm sick and tired of having implications made that we have drawn down the forces in Western Europe when we haven't." McNamara lost his temper again when Cowles publications' Washington Correspondent Clark Mollenhoff, a longtime foe, persistently accused him of dodging questions about an adverse report by the Preparedness Subcommittee that the Pentagon has refused to release. The Defense Secretary said bitterly: "I unfortunately haven't been able to dodge all the rocks...
After writing a simple formula to ex press this relationship, Kennedy applied it first to a determination of the temper ature in the earth's core -until now calculated by extrapolation of Lindemann's Law to be 13,500° F. Instead of the estimated pressure at the earth's inner core (3,000,000 atmospheres), he used the experimentally derived density of iron at this pressure -about twice its density at sea level. Putting that figure into his formula, he arrived at a new and more realistic estimate of the heat in the earth...
...stamped her sandaled feet and threatened to report hecklers in her audience to her pitaji (daddy). At 48, Indira has largely outgrown that sort of thing. The left-wingers may still be enthusiastic about her, but she is better balanced. Menon seldom comes to call, and Indira keeps her temper reined...
Indira is also likely to temper her policies to fit the thoughts of the three men she seems to trust most. They are Food Minister Subramaniam, Defense Minister Chaven and Economist Asoka Mehta. Like her, they are all Socialists, but in 18 years of experience, they have seen that socialism is not always a cure, and is sometimes a curse for India's problems. By inclination, Indira prefers public ownership of plants, but her chief economic adviser, Asoka Mehta, is fully aware that government-owned factories have proved to be far less efficient than private enterprise in India. Indira...
...with his successful though costly battle to make U.S. Steel roll back an announced $6-per-ton across-the-board price hike in 1962. On that memorable occasion, Kennedy simply felt that he had been double-crossed by U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, and he lost his Irish temper...