Word: temperance
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Obviously affronted, Adenauer held his temper, asked for time to consider the document. An hour later, Adenauer trudged back to the conference room and told Bidault: "All right." Then he put the question: What about a date for France's EDC debate? Bidault's reply was a severe disappointment. He was sorry, but the government had not been able to schedule the debate, and it did not know when it would. Disconsolately, Adenauer put his name with Bidault's on a pious communique ("A complex subject...
Nasser, secluded 18 hours a day in his workroom by the Nile, had miscalculated the country's temper. He had underestimated the popular appeal of General Mohammed Naguib, overestimated the unity of the officers' corps (which turned out to be honeycombed with fellow travelers), misjudged the troublemaking .capacity of the supposedly cowed Wafdist politicians and Moslem Brotherhood. To bring the shaken-up Revolutionary regime back into the confidence of the people, political salesmanship was called...
From then on, he was obsessed by the idea of crocodile hunting. He ran away from school, scorned his father's efforts to make him a farmer. When World War II began, he joined the South African Air Force, but soon "lost his temper" and was put under arrest. He escaped by pole-vaulting the prison stockade, hopped a train to Durban and enlisted in the artillery under a fake name. Demobilized in 1945, a veteran of Anzio and Cassino, he set about the more serious business of fighting crocodiles...
...Chester Wilmot. 56. His bristling incorruptibility, his endless suspicion of other politicos, and his Donald Duck temper came through in The Secret Diary of this old New Dealer: 1. Henry Morgenthau...
...that years of hard living have somewhat soured Britain's taste for the televised fol-de-rol of subversive hunting, for her recently completed Civil Service investigation seems, in retrospect, to have lacked the drama of its American counterpart. The sober temper of these investigations was reflected in an unemotional speech by Sir Hartley Shawcross, the Attorney General of the Labor Party between 1945 and 1951, at Columbia's Bicentennial celebration. The long speech, almost entirely ignored by the American press, summed up the methods and results of Britain's policy towards subversives since World...