Word: temperance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Beyond doubt the American temper is strikingly different today from what it was then. After World War II, the nation enjoyed an almost cocky belief that it could do anything - and everything. Had not the U.S. just saved civilization? Did not the U.S. own the Bomb? Most Americans were eager to proclaim their nation the greatest. And they turned out to be perfectly willing to prove it - once they had been asked to. Americans of Marshall's day, of course, also had trust in their Government - and a certitude about their power to prevail that had not been crumpled...
Jones never seemed thrown or slowed down by the loss of critical approval. Indeed, he never indulged in the public pouts one expects of celebrated literary types. In Paris, apart from a couple of boorish flashes of temper, he lived an abundant life and made his strikingly craggy face familiar around the boulevards. He also continued to write and yearn for literary immortality. Even when he did gripe about reviewers, one could wonder whether he really cared what they were saying-or even quite understood. "They just said I was a bad writer, bad grammar, blah, blah, blah," he told...
...inaccuracies of the account. It sounded like somebody playing old White House tapes. John Kennedy blew up at the New York Herald Tribune, and canceled all 22 White House subscriptions to the newspaper They used to keep the bad clips from Ike to avoid eruptions of his barracks temper. L.B.J. thought the press was a giant conspiracy to portray him as "your corn-pone President." During Watergate, Ron Ziegler's press briefings often had a portion devoted to the sins of the Washington Post...
Dragon [1952, 1964, 1976]--Your fiery reputation is based on an outward show of stubbornness and short temper, but underneath you are really gentle, sensitive and softhearted...
...else could mortals account for lost objects and the malfunctions of the material world? It was no accident that a new strain of elves-gremlins-magically appeared at about the time of World War II, when things began going wrong with airplanes. For centuries the presence of fairies helped temper parental rage at the misbehavior of children; the ethereal little devils were responsible. When things went bump in the night, it was far better to suspect the hobgoblins than creatures more substantial and threatening. Most important, the winged folk held out the prospect of an airy, insubstantial and blissfully frivolous...