Word: temperance
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Whether the special bills, schemes, promises and bustling in State capitals could solve the problem or not (the Army & Navy plainly thought not), the worrywart frenzy of state activity was a symptom of the nation's temper. In blunt words, voters had told their legislators-both state and national-that something must be done...
...this façade is deceptive. Behind it hides a strong and active mind, a harshness of will and temper. Ability and toughness brought Junker von Manstein, with his discipline and logic, close to plebeian Adolf Hitler, with his psychoses and intuition. Hitler must have respect for this good soldier. Manstein may have no respect for his Führer, but he bears him loyalty as the chief of state...
Dutch is big (6 ft., 194 lb. stripped), has a famous temper (he once really broke all his golf clubs), and his wispy grey hair is thickest above his ears, which makes him look something like a horned owl. Ham is small (5 ft. 5 in., 150 lb.), mild-spoken and teetotaling. Dutch left Glenn Martin in 1925 to be Donald Douglas' chief engineer in Santa Monica. In 1934 General Motors picked Dutch to manage and expand its North American Aviation. But while Donald Douglas held back against the inevitable expansion of U.S. aircraft production (TIME, Nov. 22), Dutch...
...idiom ("Boy, I never knew anything could be so cold. It must be about a thousand below"), the feel of the country ("Spring . . . the air's full of the sound of running water, the gurgle of streams and the chatter of rivers below the ice"), and the temper of the men who built it ("Eight miles a day-and only a thousand miles...
...Grind Begins. Next day Franklin Roosevelt got a quick fill-in from his Democratic leaders in Congress. Presumably they told him of the series of defeats the Administration had suffered, of Congress' angry mood, of the almost secessionist temper of Southern Democrats (TIME, Dec. 20). Now he knew he was back in Washington...