Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Misalliance Shaw was even more unbridled than his characters : grown men claw the carpet in temper fits, airplanes fall out of the sky, pistols are cocked, china is smashed, women are chased through heather and hall. If family life has seldom been so discredited, it has seldom possessed such genuine if turbulent charm. Misalliance has, to be sure, its limitations. It could stand cutting; and though its method conquers the audience, in the end it defeats itself. The play can mean so many things that it really means nothing...
Recalling some of Mao's early military writing, Schwartz agreed that China's Red boss favors imperialism. "The temper of the present regime is expansionist in the long run," he said, although the Chinese would probably like a peaceful breather in which to consolidate their gains and industrialize...
...Malaya, and so the Sultan's letter got a prompt unofficial reply from an R.A.F. pilot: "Who the hell is the Sultan anyway? He wouldn't be where he is now if it weren't for the R.A.F. and the security forces." In a terrible temper, the Sultan decided to take his revenge upon the British: he ordered Commissioner General MacDonald to get out of Bukit Serene...
...pachinko" a professor solemnly decided, "seems to be a sort of resistance against the misadministration of the government . . . Their fingertips flipping steel balls are filled with some sense of anger." Sometimes the anger gets the better of pachinko players. Recently a 72-year-old woman fan lost her temper, smashed the glass of the machine, cut her self and bled to death...
...Terrible Temper. Michelangelo was born in 1475, the second son of a Florentine petty official. His mother died when he was six. The sickly boy was a trial to his practical father, the more so because he would not pay attention in school but was always doodling. It was such gifted doodling, however, that at 13 the scrawny Michelangelo was put to learn the painter's trade in the workshop of Ghirlandaio. Within a year the master himself was making jealous noises at his prodigious protégé. Lorenzo de Medici, the Florentine dictator, was so impressed with...