Word: temperedness
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Favored Countries. For ten days, the green-and-gold Council chamber rang with debate over Mother Portugal's Africa-the largest European empire still intact, one which is plagued by poverty, rebellion, and (in the words of nationalists) "totalitarianism tempered by inefficiency." In a fascinating train of logic, the...
Speaking with the slow deliberation of a man who does not want to rouse the bears, Investigator Cohen conceded that the proposals are "quite controversial" and said that the SEC commissioners might find some "alternative solutions." SEC Chief William L. Gary and the four other commissioners already have the power...
Maytag brought along his four-man executive team from Frontier to help run National, set out to shine up the line's somewhat tarnished reputation. National executives, who had grown gun-shy under terrible-tempered Ted Baker, found themselves with freely delegated authority. Maytag modernized National's fleet...
De Sade was horrified by prison but hardly cowed. He wrote a typically arrogant appeal to his wife: "Imperious, quick-tempered, uncontrolled, extreme in everything, with an unbridled imagination about sex that has never been equaled-there you have me; and once more, either kill me or take me as...
As the sharp-tongued, terrible-tempered son of a butcher from the poverty-parched Auvergne, Laval scrabbled his way to the top through law and politics. He was first elected to the Assembly in 1914. In 1931 he became, at 47, one of the youngest French Premiers ever. He freely...