Word: temperance
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...Hoover plan put more heat under the U.S. public's rising temper over shortages. Still more heat came from the governors of 13 northeastern states. Lashing out at the uneven distribution which breeds black markets, they recommended that: 1) OPA's rationing system be overhauled, and separate points be issued for meat; 2) OPA concentrate on food controls "rather than enforcing ceilings on cocktails and fur coats...
...Temper! In Parks Falls, Wis., Edward Trzcinske, angry at his girl friend, borrowed a bulldozer, butted her house partly off its foundation...
...individual, within laws which freely elected Parliaments have freely passed. I stand for the rights of the ordinary man to say what he thinks of the Government of the day, however powerful, and to turn them out neck and crop if he thinks he can better his temper or his home thereby. . . ." Churchill found few differences between the Conservative and Liberal Parties ("There is scarcely a Liberal sentiment which animated the great Liberal leaders of the past which we do not inherit and defend...
Architect of this victory was General Wang Yao-wu, a peppery, 40-year-old Shantung man. Stocky, muscular and tanned, like most Shantung peasants, he has a ferocious temper, a vivid and profane vocabulary. He is of the very core of the old Chinese Army, a Whampoa Academy cadet who fought his way up from platoon to army group commander. But in Hunan he used methods long neglected in China...
...Owing to the action of Mr. de Valera, so much at variance with the temper and instinct of thousands of southern Irishmen, who hastened to the battlefront to prove their ancient valor, the approaches which the southern Irish ports and airfields could so easily have guarded were closed by the hostile aircraft and U-boats. This was indeed a deadly moment in our life, and if it had not been for the loyalty and friendship of northern Ireland, we should have been forced to come to close quarters with Mr. de Valera or perish forever from the earth. However, with...