Word: temperedness
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Freshened Minds. Founded in 1930 by a crusty, quick-tempered high school principal, the sect seeks to annihilate all other religions and to establish Soka Gakkai (literal translation: the value-creating study group) as the national religion of Japan. New to politics, this flamboyant sect first made its mark in...
Green has long served on foreign affairs committees, but he speaks no foreign language, has visited Europe only as a World War I army officer, has never visited Washington. Toward the British Commonwealth, his record is faithful support; toward the U.S., friendship tempered with wariness.
Though his papers-particularly Die Welt-have often tempered their pro-Western stands by urging a more conciliatory approach to Russia, Springer's empire has gradually swung toward a firm, unified support of the West's stand on Berlin during the past six months. Says Publisher Springer: "I...
Married. Westbrook Pegler, 64, terrible-tempered Old Guard newspaper columnist; and Pearl Wiley Doane, 47, an energetic worker in Los Angeles Republican politics; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1955), she for the third; in Manhattan.
¶When Galileo (1564-1642) reported his telescopic discovery of four new planets (they were actually satellites of Jupiter), Kepler was the first scientist in Europe to believe, and generously offered himself as "your shield-bearer." It is Galileo's disregard of Kepler, even to the point of not...