Word: temperance
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Half-Way Mark? Thus were lost the ninth, the tenth, the eleventh U.S.-owned ships sunk in World War II. Intrinsically these losses-in cargoes, in bottoms-did not mean much. But they added to the toll, not only of lost tonnages and lives, but of lost tempers. They brought U.S. ship losses half way to the total of 22 which were lost in World War I before the U.S. temper carried the nation into...
...performance of General Wesson and subordinates (now 3,649 officers, 23,000 enlisted men) needed excuse, one might well be found in the paradoxical temper of the U.S. For close to 20 years the Ordnance Department, like the rest of the Army, rocked along on niggardly appropriations from a people determined not to prepare for the next war. Since the U.S. would have no munitions business, Ordnance had almost no practice with production, had to confine itself almost entirely to research and limited development of new weapons...
Since Aug. 5, Representative Thomas Francis Ford of California had kept his temper. This was a record for Mr. Ford. But last week he blew his top, with cause, over the treatment of the Price Control Bill...
...saved from death. Young Paul Collette, who in Paris six weeks ago wounded Pierre Laval and Marcel Déat, was condemned to death by a Vichy court. Marshal Henri Philippe Petain commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. Many observers of Vichy thought that the Marshal, knowing the rebellious temper of suppressed French millions, was too shrewd to risk the execution of a boy who had tried to kill two of Hitler's best French friends...
...Kittredge had not lost his temper with the boys; he was merely yielding to the irrepressible impulse to teach,--this time to teach manners and morals. That was also the case when with his walking-stick he poked off the hat of a man who had not uncovered his head on entering Widener. The offender turned out to be, not a student, but a younger colleague who did not particularly relish the lesson. But everything was settled peaceably, and the men were the best of friends...