Word: temperedness
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Special Justice. It will not occur if John McClellan can prevent it. To the job of preventing it he brings much more than his scowl and his voice; they are merely the sight and the sound of the controlled strength that makes McClellan one of the most respected members of...
As the agonizing hours wore on, the groggy, red-eyed diggers received atomic-age assistance. From the AEC's nearby Brookhaven Laboratories came a set of tempered-steel tubes (used as gamma-ray shields) that telescoped one inside the other like a nest of cups; they were trip-hammered...
But Publisher Loeb is made of more carefully tempered stuff than Wisconsin's McCarthy; few New Hampshiremen expect a censure resolution (a questionable step in this instance) to crimp his rambunctious style. A Neanderthal Republican whose father was Teddy Roosevelt's secretary, Oyster Bay-born Bill Loeb, 51...
That long, extraordinary career began in the small, dusty Catalan town of Vendrell, south of Barcelona, where Casals' father was a church organist. By the time the boy was eleven, he had mastered the organ, piano and violin and had turned to the cello and the music of Bach...
Referring to the unenumerated powers of the president as the constitutional "realm of silence," the former presidential advisor urged that the "rule of necessity" be tempered by the "rule of restraint."