Word: temperedness
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The target of both Presidents' outbursts was Otto Passman, the Tabasco-tempered Democrat from Monroe, La., who for the past ten years has devoted most of his abrasive energies to the task of slashing foreign aid bills. As chairman of House Appropriations' foreign operations subcommittee, Passman, a graduate...
"Just Craze for Foreign." Against rural resignation stands the excitement of India's great metropolises. Each of the country's major cities-Bombay, Calcutta, New Delhi and Madras-has its own similarities and its own distinctions. Calcutta and Bombay are linked in their visual splendor and their vicious...
Civil rights have come so far in Atlanta that no one bats an eye any more when Negroes are served side by side with whites at Krystal restaurants, a chain that sells 100 hamburgers all over town. Yet only 17 months ago, Connecticut College Coed Mardon Walker, 18, was considered...
In the 19th century this attitude was tempered by a nagging sense of social and cultural inferiority to Europe, which caused Americans to proclaim their indifference to foreign judgments while in fact they were listening for them all the time. Although this uncertainty gradually faded (not that it has totally...
For over 30 years he was constantly on stage, playing Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Chopin so often that he could no longer hear the notes, even while his fingers gave virtuoso performances. He grew ever more fearful of the audiences that forever insisted he encore with his tour-de-force arrangement...