Word: temperedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Determined to avoid scandal, Premier Georges Bidault's cabinet made no public charges when it removed Revers. Instead, it placed him "at the disposal of the Prime Minister," and there was even talk that General Revers would get a new job, probably with Western Union headquarters at Fontainebleau. To...
There were no skyrocket bursts of great, fresh genius, and among the novelists many an old hand had shown a faltering touch. But 1949's books, fiction and nonfiction, accurately and often brilliantly reflected the state of man and his world. They were books colored by personal questioning, confusion...
When Julius Albert Krug was called in to replace terrible-tempered Harold Ickes as Secretary of the Interior, there seemed no limits to the glistening future of the Wisconsin wonder boy. Behind him was an impressive record of public service as a member of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, manager...
The pro hockey season came in like a lamb. For almost a month the National Hockey League played before unfilled houses as though every man's heart was set on winning the Lady Byng Trophy (hockey's award for gentlemanly conduct). Last week in Chicago Stadium, hot-tempered...
The court listened attentively, and agreed to let Steinmann enter a cage of lions, tigers or black panthers("Panthers," said Lawyer Valensi, "are the most ill-tempered beasts"), and prove his courage.