Word: temperance
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...Ibadan, an all-black Nigerian city of 459,000, eager young Africans full of ideas on how to remake the world adopt the manners and academic costumes of their distant white cousins at Oxford and Cambridge. The white man's faith has also come with him to temper with Christian mercy the harsh superstitions of native paganism: Catholicism in the Congo, Anglicanism in British East Africa, isolated settlements of other Protestant religions elsewhere. Numerically, Christian conversions are few, and in most areas Islam is proving a more dynamic creed...
...design of a police street sign. By carefully calculating the base area of his new chair, he achieved the stability of four legs without weighting the bottom of the porcelain-enameled aluminum pedestal. The plastic seats are of tulip-shaped organic design, can have richly colored cushions to temper modern simplicity with elegance. The tables, in neutral colors, will be topped with marble or fine wood. Saarinen's new pieces are scheduled to go into mass production at Knoll Associates in September, will sell in the medium-price range...
...assistant professor of English at Alabama Polytechnic, dresses some of his sentences in self-conscious Sunday-best. Images that arrest also often manacle the narrative. But in his bewildered hero bent on restoring a lost Eden, Author Jones has found an apt symbol for the current Southern temper, restive and occasionally violent under edicts which seem to threaten cherished folkways. In a fictional amber as reflective as it is rhetorical, he has fixed the unchanging pathos of social change...
Personality: Paunchy, moonfaced, tousle-haired, Ollenhauer presides placidly over his party's bureaucracy, delivers cautiously hedged speeches, and keeps easy control of his temper. "I have never seen Erich pray, tremble or curse," says a fellow Socialist. Evenings he sips wine with cronies and plays skat, a German pub card game. His chauffeur-driven Mercedes fetches him to work at an unproletarian midmorning hour. A solid and comfortable householder type, if no intellectual giant, Ollenhauer pitches his appeal as a safe sort of Socialist both to Germany's middle-class voters and to workers who now have...
...first five hours of this. Security Council President Carlos Romulo wearily tried to shut Menon off, but the indefatigable Indian insisted that it would take him the better part of another session to finish his case. So far, Menon had kept his hair-trigger temper under control; but the following morning, when he discovered that the U.S. and four other powers were already circulating a resolution which began, "Having heard statements from representatives of the governments of India and Pakistan ..." Menon's control broke. In a fit of irritation he implied that Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon...