Word: temperate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...membership of the Congress has not changed-and neither has its temper. That fact can only spell trouble for President Kennedy's domestic legislative program. "We look and we look," says a top Kennedy aide, "but it's hard to see much daylight anywhere...
...fight. "Provoked" by the Austrian Chancellor, Kurt von Schuschnigg. Hitler improvised the invasion of Austria almost overnight, as proved by the fact that 70% of the German transport broke down on the way. When Hitler ordered his generals to "smash" Czechoslovakia, it was merely a "momentary display of temper." The real culprits, Taylor implies, were the men foolhardy enough to stand up to Hitler. Poland's Foreign Minister Jozef Beck had such "great power arrogance" about his little nation that he tricked Britain into the foolish defense pact that started World...
There has been little research on the problem, but apparently the highly intelligent reach full maturity later, and are not prepared to make final career decisions as soon as others. If any prognostication makes sense, it is that the rising intelligence of the undergraduate and the aristocratic temper of the college will militate against undergraduate science...
Simply denouncing the policies of the far right is not likely to temper its fanaticism, for it thrives on martyrdom-and is only too happy to add its critics to its list of subversives. If the members of the far right are to be wooed back into normal channels of political expression, politicians must patiently face the task of convincing them that at the present time the real danger to the nation lies from without, and that the way to fight that danger is to encourage unity at home and unflinching policies abroad that reflect the best interests...
...terms of smiles-per-hour. In fact, many of the jokes are soggy burps that might well have been planted in the script by a secret agent from Canada Dry. But many more, as usually happens in pictures written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. ("Izzy") Diamond, have edge and temper. Cagney's wife (Arlene Francis): "But she can't stay long. Doesn't school open soon?" Cagney: "In Georgia? You never know." Cagney's ten-year-old son, hopefully, when the boss's daughter has a fainting spell: "If she dies can I have...