Word: temperedness
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"The most clutch performance I turned in on the whole trip was driving very fast from Winston-Salem to Raleigh-Durham," the even-tempered captain said yesterday. "That was the most exciting part of the trip," he added.
Next to health, heart and home, happiness for mobile Americans depends upon the well-tempered automobile. Computer technology may make the car, as we know it, a Smithsonian antique. In addition to the microprocessors under the hood that will help the auto operate more efficiently, tiny computers will ease tensions...
Truck Driver Calvin Knapp ran a write-in, word-of-mouth campaign last November for the unpaid job of constable of Michigan's Novi township. He won, but the satisfaction of victory was tempered by a $300 fine for having failed to form the proper committees and to file...
Lévesque, by contrast, is a chainsmoking, disorganized, hot-tempered bundle of emotional energy from one of Quebec's poorest farming regions. His manner is shy and self-deprecating. While Trudeau's speeches are structured and formal, Lévesque's are extemporaneous, meandering marvels that somehow manage to reduce complex...
Under Saudi religious law, adulterers are punished by being stoned to death in public. According to some reports, however, Princess Mashall's sentence was "commuted" to shooting, perhaps because she was the granddaughter of Prince Mohammed, King Khalid's eldest brother (a notoriously ill-tempered man whose nickname is Abu...