Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last-week surge of frenzy, the U.S. team relaxed and watched the Olympian orgy of "international good will" degenerate into a running international rhubarb. Having stored it up through most of the two weeks of sportsmanlike intimacy, competitors and fans alike began to let loose some of the bad temper induced by the Soviet repression of Hungary. The Russians' popularity seemed to diminish as rapidly as their score rose. They were booed so lustily when they took their turn on the fencing mats that police had to escort them through the threatening crowds...
...Said ex-Coach Frank Leahy (whose teams were sometimes capable of feigning injuries as they were often capable of fighting for victory): "I watched the Iowa game . . . there was no fight, no will to win. What has happened to the old Notre Dame spirit?" The criticism heated up the temper of Notre Dame's young (28) Coach Terry Brennan, a protege of Leahy, and when he heard idle gossip that Leahy might be heading for a job as a Notre Dame football consultant, he snapped: "Not as long as I'm coach." Next day the Irish lost...
Others go in for frank pep talks. The Rev. Herbert Garner of Battle Creek's First Presbyterian Church begins his messages with commands such as "Face Issues!" "Don't worry!" "Keep your temper!" Sample message: "Cheer up: the world needs people who are cheerful as much as it needs anything! Some are wise, some wealthy, skillful or famous. But all of us can be cheerful! It doesn't cost anything; in fact, it pays big dividends...
...carefully nurtured M.A. and P.A. blend inextricably into what irreverent teammates have been known to call "the vaudeville act of O'Brien and O'Brien." The show begins with Parry snarling around the track, sinking into what he calls his "competitive trance," beneath which lies the quick temper of a scalded hog. When the spirit moves him, he snatches up the shot in his left hand, licks the fingers of his right hand and rubs the saliva on the back of his neck. This is not superstition. The thin lamination of moisture is meant to keep the shot...
Though ultraconservative businessmen (and many liberals) thought in 1952 that a G.O.P. victory would be a triumph for reaction, they sadly misjudged the temper of the times. By conserving and enlarging the social programs inherited from the New and Fair Deals, the Eisenhower Ad ministration helped set a course for the new conservative. Instead of returning to a dog-eat-dog economy. Administration trustbusters have vigilantly policed big business. The Administration has expanded social security, federal aid to hospitals, low-cost housing subsidies and other programs that were once anathema to the standpat conservative. The most significant contribution of Eisenhower...