Word: temperedness
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Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci came closer to a controversy by bringing up civil rights. But he tempered the issue by adding Harvard, a traditional target.
But Brill's ultimate failure to unite successfully knowledge and religion does not imply that the two are utterly irreconcilable. In fact, because the intellectual Hester stands by her daughter when Brill beseeches her to abandon hope, she illustrates the hope of fusing both strands. Based on solely Brill's...
The Eisenhower of Eisenhower is a tower of appealing contradictions: ambitious but diffident; short-tempered but generous; flirtatious with his wartime driver Kay Summersby, but, Ambrose insists, scrupulously faithful to Wife Mamie. Surveying his subject's pre-White House career, Ambrose concludes, "It can be argued that no man...
The tension is tempered with long stretches of hard work. Two to six soldiers camp in each bunker. Each day they crawl into the morning air and head for tin cups of coffee and a rudimentary breakfast. A few of the men find time for a shower, and sometimes there...
That Americans and others in the Western bloc reacted with outrage and anger at the murder of 269 innocents is natural. Yet these emotions must not let our hearts dictate to our minds. In truth, the passengers of flight 007 were victims of a war--the Cold War. When civilians...