Word: temperance
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Carlo Sforza spoke for a group of liberal exiles. How closely he reflected the temper and opinion of Italy's people, and how he might fit into the Allied plan for Italy, he would soon know...
...Iowa who churn butter from the state's 5,000,000-odd cows, the word oleomargarine induces not the scientific but the fighting temper. Last week, Iowa State College, which Hawkeyes proudly call a cow college, faced the consequences of having shared the butter-makers' feelings. The college was charged with having sidetracked a Rockefeller Foundation-supported study which said a good word for margarine. The American Association of University Professors threatened to investigate...
...kind: it was a U.S. Army, with important British units. It was the first U.S. Army of World War II activated abroad. It had trained long and earnestly for seven months in Africa, and some of its units had been tested in Sicily. It had received its final temper in seven days of shock and fire at Salerno. The Fifth had been organized in North Africa. As its Commander in Chief, Mark Clark had military jurisdiction over 225,000 sq. mi. of North African soil. He established headquarters in the vacated Ècole des Jeunes Filles at Oujda, in French...
...Germans set the stage with care. For a week they plugged the new "Republican Fascism." Then, when Joe Goebbels' men judged the temper right, they played a muffled recording of the Duce's voice, followed by the crashing notes of Giovinezza and brisk translations in all important languages. Said Mussolini in his supervised 15-minute comeback...
...such circumstances a soldier's temper is understandably short. Scores of the troops have spoken their minds to U.S. war correspondents. The sum of their abrupt observations has been that they have lost faith in the veracity of U.S. radio and in the U.S. press. In sectors where Britain's BBC can be heard, U.S. soldiers in general prefer its plain, unvarnished news commentaries to the high-pressure American product...