Word: temperate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some extent, fashion publications and advertising agencies are using blacks because of the temper of the times. But photographers have more professional reasons for insisting that black is beautiful. "Negroes photograph better against white," explains Bert Stern-and most pure fashion photography is white-backgrounded to show off the clothes. Milton Greene, famed for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe, adds: "Black models are more willing and able to put out for the camera...
...falsely humble, but the bravura of a MacArthur, a Patton or a Montgomery distressed his sense of proportion. He did not need to shout, and as General of the Army or President he betrayed not the slightest trace of pretension or vainglory. There was, to be sure, a terrible temper, but as Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, a former subordinate and sometime critic of Eisenhower, said last week, "He had only to smile at you, and there was nothing you would not do for him." Even as a five-star general, Ike could extend his hand to an enlisted...
...against the wall!" The slogan, usually in combination with a few supplementary obscenities, has become the battle cry of the U.S. protest movement-or at least a sizable part of it. The words express a temper of growing violence, brutality and authoritarianism among protesters. Sometimes in the exultation of a demonstration, sometimes in recoil from police clubs, sometimes out of sheer gall, protesters cry out for "revolution" as the only solution to the nation's ills. Those who urge revolution and sanction violence remain a minority, but they are influential beyond their numbers on the campus, to a lesser...
...training room, he could be called an athletic Sigmund Freud. He listens with an attentive ear and reaches careful prognoses with the person in mind--and when needed he has a temper that disarms most hypochondriacs and malingerers...
Historian Lloyd Lewis wrote with bugles blaring, battle flags waving and exclamation marks used like bayonet points ("Blood! Blood! Blood!"). His style was perfectly suited to the fiery temper of William Tecumseh Sherman, and his classic Sherman: Fighting Prophet inspired a more restrained younger historian, Bruce Catton, to make a career out of the Civil...