Word: temperance
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...temper is sunny, his outlook is mild...
...Never Forget." It was hardly a surprise, then, that abrasive Charles Wyzanski should run afoul of Manny Celler and John McCormack, neither of whom is famed for a cool temper. The bad blood between Wyzanski and Celler goes back five years, to the time when Wyzanski was assigned to sentence Massachusetts' Dem ocratic Representative Thomas J. Lane, a member of Celler's Judiciary Committee who pleaded guilty to evading $38,542 in income taxes. Before Lane was sentenced to four months in prison (he was promptly re-elected to Congress on his release), Celler asked Wyzanski...
...their rank. According to the Overseas Weekly, Walker was stuffing his troops with the rightist rantings of Birch Society Founder Robert Welch, once made a public speech in which he called President Truman "definitely pink" and TV's Edward R. Murrow a "confirmed Communist." A man of towering temper, Walker was so enraged when he heard of Murrow's appointment as director of the U.S. Information Agency that his staff officers feared to go near...
Other samplers of British opinion guess that only some 8-10% of Britons are fundamentally unilateralist, and warn against misjudging even the temper of those who march as Hitler once misjudged the fighting temper of British youth. They recall that only seven years after students in the Oxford Union overwhelmingly voted in 1933 that they would never fight for king and country, many were dying in the Battle of Britain. Some articulate Britons guide C.N.D. Among them: Angry Old Philosopher Bertrand Russell, 88; fiery Socialist M.P. Michael Foot; Transport and General Workers' Union Boss Frank Cousins; and C.N.D. Chairman...
...Time & Temper. But the Laotian terrain and temperament are both frustrating. Military men view with distaste the prospect of fighting a sputtery war that could be fed endlessly across the long borders with the Communist world...