Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother Lucrezia and brother Giacomo to cooperate. Big, powerful Olimpio agreed to do the killing for his mistress and a messy job it was. The family explanation that Cenci had fallen to his death through a rickety balcony was too easily disproved, and even Pope Clement VIII refused to temper justice with mercy. Beatrice, Lucrezia and Giacomo all confessed, though modern justice might question the worth of confessions extracted by torture on the rack...
...temper frayed by the heat and a prolonged 4-4 tie during a night game at Cincinnati, Redlegs Manager Birdie Tebbetts bawled that the Cards were stalling unconscionably. Cardinal Pilot Harry Walker roared a reply, and in no time at all Tebbetts and Walker grappled in the dust, triggered the season's most spirited rhubarb. While Cincinnati's monolithic (6 ft 2 in., 225 Ibs.) Ted Kluszewski laughingly held struggling Cardinal Solly Hemus in a bear hug on the sideline, some 15 brawls burgeoned all around the infield...
...selling beer. He rarely talks in a normal voice; he sounds more like a hoarse lion. On his way to appointments, he lopes in a half-walk, half-trot, arms pumping like a sprinter, while he bellows orders to an aide panting along behind. He often loses his bowstring temper. But recently he has learned to temper his tantrums with humor. "All right, you guys," he roared at a recent company meeting when everyone started clamoring at once, "let me blow my top first. Then you can blow yours...
...temper of the assembly had already become evident, and it was not in tune with the temper of Pastor Shirey. On opening night it elected as its new moderator Dr. James McDowell Richards, president of racially integrated Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga., and an outspoken antisegregationist. In a series of parliamentary moves it had blocked consideration of the minority report, had defeated anti-segregationists' efforts to delay a vote. Two hours after Shirey's plea, it reaffirmed, by a vote of 293 to 109, its year-old stand against racial segregation (last year's vote...
With that, Bob Young lost his temper. Red-faced and angry, his silver hair ruffled, he roared: "How does the U.S. Treasury finance its transactions? It's all done on credit, but their credit is good-and it isn't any better than the credit of Murchison and Richardson." Under the deal, said Young, the two Texans agreed to pay Alleghany 4½% interest on their borrowed funds...