Word: temperate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Known to his friends as "Poju" [boy], a reference to his youthful appearance, Tuomioja is respected for his even temper, intelligence and ability to listen. He will need all these gifts and more. The Turkish Cypriots and their mother country insist that Cyprus be partitioned or changed into a cantonal federation to give each national group its own domain. Greece refuses even to discuss partition, and will demand first of all a new constitution free of the hampering minority rights for Turkish Cypriots embedded in the 1960 document. Mediator Tuomioja hopes to complete his mission in the specified three-month...
...other principals, John Ross as the Younger Mortimer and Paul Schmidt as Gaveston, maintain the quality of acting. Ross, especially, uses his voice to advantage and suggests the energy and temper of a Hot-spur in his court and battle scenes. Gaveston, Edward's favorite, begins slowly, but comes to life in his dialogues with Edward and in his dealings with the disapproving nobility. Like the other principals, he depends on more than vocal pitch to show his character, and punctuates his speeches skillfully with breaths and stops...
Seymour warned the Council that it would "naturally encounter more than a little apathy" because of "the temper" of the Harvard community. But he added that he welcomed such apathy as a reflection of "the strange and wonderful way our community operates...
Each sect has its own "reforms" from time to time and may talk of "unity," but that is like clipping a few whiskers off the sectarian tiger and leaving the temper and the claws of the tiger intact...
...Arms. That was enough to trigger Finley's temper. He fought skirmishes with sportswriters, got into a violent argument with the city council over the A's stadium lease. He complained that he was paying about $125,000 a year for rent on Municipal Stadium while pro football's Kansas City Chiefs were paying only $1 plus a percentage of the concessions (total: $15,000). Rumors kept popping up that Finley was planning to move-to Atlanta, Dallas, Oakland, San Diego, and goodness knows where else. As fast as they popped up, Finley denied them. "The Athletics...