Word: temperance
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...Sobersided Congressmen reported the temper of the people: Congress should retain every bit of its hard-won independence, but should use its new power to work with the President for the common good...
Franklin Roosevelt, sensitive as a weather vane, had already detected this new mood, had shrewdly addressed Congress in like temper (see p.19...
...march of events and the visits home changed the temper of Congress...
...most extraordinary sign of America's temper today is that in a recent Gallup poll, 74% of the people voted for the idea of an "international police force." What the too pious hope of general disarmament was to the '20s, the more practically attractive picture of a world cop, hand on holster...
...popular movement would overthrow the monarchy, establish a leftist, anti-German government. Europe's listening posts described the temper of Bulgaria's people as ugly. Peace demonstrators marched in Sofia's streets, stoned the Nazi Embassy...