Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strength could be translated into Christian action when it might be most needed and most uncomfortable. Crisis-torn Little Rock, thought Bishop Brown, might well be the turning point. Said he: "The church feels itself in a paradoxical position. It stands in judgment on whatever is amiss in the temper of the society which surrounds it, and then, having exercised the ministry of judgment, it must exercise the ministry of reconciliation...
...third night, the size of the crowds and their temper increased. Police officials called out the Mobile Guard, 1,000 strong. To their salvos of tear-gas bombs the police and security troops added concussion grenades. Still the crowds grew, arming themselves with paving stones and bricks from the piles of rubble left from World War II destruction...
Temporary Tantrum. Harry Ashmore believes that history will look back on the Little Rock crisis as a "temporary temper tantrum," a time of transition in which "the best of us have been defeated and the worst of us have taken over-for the moment." Should this prophecy, like the one of six years ago, also come true, Editor Ashmore will be able to count himself among the men of tenacity and purpose who made...
Before he concludes, Author Durant pays tribute to the Catholic Church's own movement to reform itself. Says Durant in a passage typical of his style and temper: "The Counter Reformation succeeded in its principal purposes. Men continued, in Catholic as much as in Protestant countries, to lie and steal, seduce maidens and sell offices, kill and make war. But the morals of the clergy improved, and the wild freedom of Renaissance Italy was tamed to a decent conformity with the pretensions of mankind . . . All in all, it was an astonishing recovery, one of the most brilliant products...
...savoir faire," by the more important escape of her father's cows from the pasture. Miss Douglas is aware of the effect of the city on the farm girl, making them demand such needless conveniences as inside plumbing and all, but she fails to make plausible the severe temper tantrum of her heroine about such matters. The girl had previously appeared as a "Good morning, Mummy," type. Although Miss Douglas has attempted less than her fellow contributors, she has achieved much more...