Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irish joke has been around for a long time, and The Quiet Man clings safely to its durable components: temper, thirst, and whimsey. But two hours and ten minutes of wry smiles and roguish glances, even from masters Ward Bond and Barry Fitzgerald, are pretty wearing...
...vote of nearly 3,000,000. Contrary to the Democratic trend in presidential voting, Ohio has two G.O.P. Senators and 16 of its 23 Congressmen are Republican. Although it lies entirely in the eastern time zone of the U.S., Ohio's character is primarily Midwestern and its political temper is more conservative than that of most industrial states. The most effective political instrument in the state is the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Republican organization, headed by Congressman-at-Large George Bender, Bob Taft's white-gloved bell ringer at the Chicago convention. Star performer of this outfit...
...weeks ago, William Vlahos, boss of the Cathedral Painting & Decorating Co. in Washington, D.C., landed what looked like a good deal-repainting the interior of the Soviet Embassy on 16th Street. Last week, out of temper and out of pocket, William Vlahos pulled his men off the job. The Washington representatives of the proletarian state had turned out to be lousy employers...
...Washington himself could curse too in his in frequent outbursts of temper; General Charles Scott recalled that Washington, when dressing down General Charles Lee for retreating at the battle of Monmouth, swore "until the leaves shook on the trees...
...lawfully begotten . . . whom failing his heirs male whatsoever." But when the third Viscount Dudhope (pronounced Duddop) died leaving no immediate heirs, the Dudhope lands were ruthlessly grabbed by the Earl of Lauderdale, crony of the profligate Charles II and High Sheriff of Edinburgh. The earl, a man of violent temper, bullied a court of sessions into upholding his seizure; then, because there was a distant cousin to whom the Dudhope title was due, he destroyed the Scrymgeour family archives...