Word: temperedness
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The mood they encountered in their districts scattered across the U.S. was one of restiveness and frustration tempered by a cautious disposition to wait and see. A new sympathy for President Johnson's burdens was widely evident. Concerning the war, as Connecticut Representative Donald J. Irwin observed after visiting...
For New York City's 8,000,000 ad versity-tempered citizens, the sanitation workers' strike was merely a nuisance at first. By the end of last week, it had turned into a genuine crisis. Nearly 100,000 tons of uncollected garbage lay in noisome heaps on sidewalks...
The nation's labor unions long ago perfected the divide-and-conquer tactic of selective strikes in industry-wide negotiations. Only lately have companies tempered union pressure on struck rivals through "mutual-aid pacts." The airlines have used them since 1958, and they have popped up in such industries...
Alicia was only four at the time, but her reaction was as perspicacious as it was prophetic. Granados, who turned out a substantial body of operas, songs and other kinds of music, was above all a composer for the piano. He blended an instinctive Spanish flavor with French impressionism and...
How do you train Volunteers for this? Freud once remarked that children are prepared for the tropics and then sent to the polar ice cap. He was talking about children in the comfortable classes who were sheltered in the Victorian era from any knowledge of sex or aggression. Young people...