Word: temperance
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...unlimited patience as well as a fine mind and tremendous energy. Any exhibition of impatience or bad temper by others gives him amusement. At such times it is interesting to watch his serious, solemn expression as he protests his innocence of any provocation." Molotov was a stickler for procedure. His favorite word was: "Nyet" ("No"), which Byrnes heard so often "I almost accept it as part of my own language. He can say in English, 'I agree,' but so seldom does he agree that his pronunciation isn't very good...
...rehearsal with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, he seemed to be having the time of his life. Don Gillis' new Symphony for Fun was the kind of thing the maestro could let himself go on. On the podium, he swayed, sang, all but strutted a cakewalk. Once the Toscanini temper flared up-when the xylophonist floundered over a particularly tricky passage. In the studio control room, Composer Gillis watched the struggling xylophonist, whispered to a companion: "Poor guy. Doesn't he realize that no one could possibly play that passage? Even I know that...
During most of his adult life, easygoing Earl S. Tupper, 40, has described himself as "a ham inventor and Yankee trader." By last week, one of his inventions-an unbreakable, flexible, shape-retaining plastic which can be moulded into all sorts of containers-was forcing him to temper the "ham" and drop the "trader" entirely...
...meeting took place in the small hours of the morning. Communist Barbi began with elaborate politeness: "Priests are all right in a church, but their concern is with eternity, not with time measurement." Then suddenly he lost his temper: "Hand over that money!" Nello Checchi, a rotund, jolly Communist butcher, came to Barbi's assistance: "I am the only Communist member of your Clock Committee. I know that it has done nothing because," and he pointed a swollen, accusing finger at the priest, "you, Father Bernardoni, wanted it to do nothing." Cried Christian Democrat Gallo...
...down $800,000 from last year. But the big meat packers who had not yet reported, were expected to have whopping profits. Said the New York Sun: "The market is talking such enormous profits for Cudahy that it thinks a stock split is inevitable in order to temper the impact of the income on the public mind...