Word: temperedness
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As a victor, K'ang-hsi tempered justice with shrewd compassion and love of discrimination. He changed a horse thief's sentence from beheading to exile, since "the nation was at peace and horse theft was therefore not so serious as it would have been in time of...
"Jacques the Knife," as Chirac is now known in some quarters, is tall (6 ft. 2 in.), stubborn, impatient, ill-tempered at times-and unusually effective in getting things done. Born into a well-to-do Paris family, Chirac began his rise to power in 1962, when at the age...
Violated Spirit. In other Common Market capitals, the reaction to the Roman surprise was one of irritation tempered by caution. A number of European statesmen complained privately that the restriction represented a beg-gar-thy-neighbor attempt by the Italians to solve their own problems at other countries' expense...
Misfortunes are befalling Allen's supporters. In October, the student government saw the error of its previous criticism of Morrissey and tempered its support for Allen. It cut off funds for the padlocked the offices of the campus newspaper, which had continued to protest the prospective firing of Allen and...
A special joy is that this is Lester's first film since the wizardly but little-seen Bed Sitting Room, which played in the U.S. in 1969 for approximately the time it would take to soft-boil an egg. Lester made his reputation from his two gymnastic Beatles movies...