Word: temperedness
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Senator Edmund Muskie felt tired and ill. His replies on a television show were cold and argumentative, and one of his aides, Berl Bernhard, bluntly told Muskie that it was a bad performance. When Muskie publicly berated his staff for a bad press release, Bernhard protested firmly that such scoldings...
Flexible Scholar. Burns has already unified the Federal Reserve behind this policy. When Nixon appointed him, Burns was known as a rigid, terrible-tempered conservative; capital gossips predicted a wave of resignations from the Federal Reserve staff. Instead, Burns has won the admiration of staff economists by working them hard...
Vandenberg is neither a Senator nor an Air Force base; he is a beat-up, bad-tempered, 50-year-old New Mexico artist who is suspected of political deviation by the Soviet occupation forces. He is arrested and sent to a maximum-security rehabilitation camp.
Most people were happy. "Faculty Saves Everyone-Overruling Ad Board" was the banner CRIMSON headline. "The faculty's action was just," reasoned most people. It was justice tempered with mercy and reason. It was a moral decision. The students' actions had been weighed in light of the issues, in light...
Dove to Hawk. At first an ardent supporter of F.D.R. and the New Deal, Russell later tempered his view. "I'm a reactionary when times are good," he explained, "but in a depression, I'm a liberal." Like other Southerners, he remained in the Senate term after term...