Word: temperance
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...smaller powers made it clear that they dislike, will try to temper, but will not strenuously oppose the concentration of responsibility for security in the Big Powers. There was absolutely no move for real political equality in the new world organization. ¶ Canada's Mackenzie King and the Latin Americans put great stress on the neglected economic and social aspects of Dumbarton Oaks. Many signs indicated that the Economic and Social Council will loom much larger in the final organization than it does in the original proposals...
...noon today the bodies were removed to a mortuary. Mussolini and Petacci were dragged like sacks of grain into a high-walled courtyard. Men, women & children followed, climbing the brick wall and peering over at the shapeless pulp that was the Duce's face. The people's temper, as though satiated, seemed calmer now. "At last, it is finished," said one quietly. "He was punished...
...current procedure involves a multiple system of control. It falls short of the demands of the consumer. It marks out a rough limit of tolerance, and it reveals, at least for the time, the temper of the personnel charged with administration. This raises an issue, opens or reopens a file, leads to a preview of complaints, revives a controversy of the past, invites an independent investigation...
...breathless days, the U.S. people got an idea of how their new President would carry on: Harry Truman was quick, decisive, seemed to have a talent for working hard without getting confused or losing his temper...
...Power. Such was the temper of the U.S. Senate on the eve of the most momentous international gathering since Versailles. That temper breathed reasoned hope and optimism, as it had not done on the eve of Versailles, when rancor and dissension were the order of the day. Like its two delegates, the Senate-which must ratify any charter to come out of San Francisco-did not expect the millennium. But it seemed determined to help achieve some semblance of world order and U.S. adherence thereto, if it was at all possible. That determination was in good part...