Word: temperately
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...scrupulous neutrality, and he never loses the Point of his narrative. All along, his greatest character is the military academy itself, sustained by patriotic zeal in the '50s, pocked by controversy in the '60s and cheating scandals in the '70s, yielding in the '80s to a new national temper. Today women are admitted, there is a , course in ethics, and the incoming class is treated with unaccustomed humanity. "Demanding but not demeaning" is the cadre's new motto. Only the school prayer goes on as before: "Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never...
...gentleman" navigating by Porsche the congested Saturday-afternoon Harvard Square traffic lost his temper and blared his horn at the crowd crossing before him. He was about to learn firsthand about Harvard Square pedestrians...
...games were intense most of the times, probably because of this guy named Jose. He is a middle-aged Mexican who now lives in the U.S. and he has phenomenal skills. And a phenomenal temper. Scrape him with your foot and he'd start yelling. Try to guard him and he would elbow you in the stomach. I was definitely hooked...
Pierce's bitterness over his lot in life helps make him its prisoner. His quick temper has got him fired from jobs that might have enabled him to buy his boat and independence. Banks will not lend him money. He has no telephone at home because he ripped it out of the wall during a fit of anger. He poaches clams at a neighboring bird sanctuary, more out of orneriness than hope of profit. And, to complicate his existence still further, he has fallen into a love affair with Elsie Buttrick, the local game and fish warden...
France is doing its share. The two leaders met for 15 hours to cement a relationship Mitterrand hopes will temper West Germany's growing dominance. They signed 22 agreements, including plans for a joint probe of Mars...