Word: temperance
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...figure in their civilian days. Said one of them, looking up from a sensitive head modeled in clay: "I've been in the Army six years, and I've had my ups & downs. I was up as high as staff sergeant once. ... I have a hot temper. They thought when I came here that I'd never learn to make anything with my hands but black eyes. [This] is easier on the hands, and more satisfying." Another Dix artist has even refused to leave Ft. Dix on his days off. He stayed to work on his paintings...
...Chapman and Keats went on tour with a pair of performing bears. Keats refused to believe they were tame and harmless, but consented to feed them. Chapman found Keats injecting a local anesthetic into the bears. They were numb but upright. "Chapman flew into a feverish temper and demanded the reason for this brutal and cynical outrage. 'There's safety in numb bears,' Keats said...
...Badoglio Government had proclaimed martial law (TIME, Aug. 2), but the Milanese paid no heed. Report and rumor painted their temper as exuberant, mutinous. Into the great Piazza del Duomo they surged, defying the machine guns mounted in the shadow of the famed Cathedral. They hoisted anti-war placards. They stormed the Cellari jail and freed a batch of political prisoners. The soldiers of the Crown refused to fire on them. Once a column of the people, remembering the exiled maestro who would not play Giovinezza, rushed down the arcaded streets to La Scala and before the famed Opera House...
...Temper. Italy's anti-Fascist groups wondered if Blackshirt Fascismo had merely given way to Whiteshirt Fascismo. Cried the underground: "Treason . . . betrayal. . . . We are going from one dictatorship to another. . . . The time has come for [the people] ... to demand ... a clear declaration of [the government's] foreign and internal policy." Giornale d'ltalia, no longer edited by Mussolini Mouthpiece Virginio Gayda (rumored a suicide), warned: "[Italy might have as much to fear] from her friends as from her enemies." Milan's Corriere della Sera, mutilated by the censor, voiced a widespread worry: "The limpid truths...
Soviet newspapers reminded their readers and the world that Russia had contributed to Italy's collapse by smashing dozens of Italian divisions in Russia, while its current summer offensive had prevented Germany from sending reinforcements to Italy. The temper of Moscow comment made it clear that Russia wanted Soviet representatives included in any peace conference...