Word: temperedness
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But Lew never really found himself until he was sent to the Braves. Pennant-hungry Milwaukee brought out the mean-spirited competitor in him, and he delighted in the sight of an opposing batter sprawling to escape his head-high fast ball. The measure of his success is the list...
Terrible-tempered Texan Tommy Bolt smoldered on a short fuse all afternoon. When the crowd cheered his missed putts he began to sputter; when they jeered a flubbed approach to the eighth green he exploded into club-throwing wrath. "It was demoralizing," Bolt complained later. "I thought these people were...
Consequences of Revolt. Luther inevitably dominates the stage, but Durant does well by the other great Reformation leaders-John Knox, the virtuoso of invective, and Calvin, the black icicle of theology for whose doctrine of predestination even-tempered Author Durant reserves one of his rare flashes of indignation ("We shall...
The Malayans, too, did things in style, though the curiously unenthusiastic calm with which they received their independence was attributed by British residents to the fact that it was "handed to them on a platter." Gracefully, round-faced, 54-year-old Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman* paid tribute to...
The only out-of-town papers to reach Boston in any quantity were New Hampshire Publisher William Loeb's daily Manchester Union Leader (circ. 48,575) and Sunday News (40,000). Neanderthal Republican Loeb (TIME, May 20), who frequently vents his spleen in terrible-tempered Page One editorials, e.g...