Word: temperedness
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When the Senate's censure proceedings ended, Senator McCarthy could no longer complain that his exposure of Communists was being "hamstrung." With a public show of energy tempered by bluster, he ordered his Permanent Investigations Subcommittee into action, ostensibly to find Communists in defense plants.
The Hemingway of World War II wore a canteen of vermouth on one hip, a canteen of gin on the other, a helmet that he seldom used because he couldn't find one big enough. Accredited a foreign correspondent for Collier's (he jokingly called himself "Ernie Hemorrhoid...
For Spain's Pedro Cardinal Segura y Sáenz, in Don Juan's famous line, hell is a city much like Seville. In his terrible-tempered way, Segura has borne down on the gay, fun-loving people of his Seville diocese, suppressed their dances, banned movies, shuttered...
Steven Aaron, as a gouty old gossip, is another worthy addition to the destructive drawing room. But once the good tempered malice of Lady Teazle is allowed to take control of the play, the sinner's circle must suffer and with them some of Sheridan's best effects. Though the...
Bishop Sheen spoke on the "Psychological Effects of the Hydrogen Bomb" and, as usual, tempered the ominous parts of his message with a sprinkling of jokes and puns. The bishop also scored a partial triumph over his sponsor, Admiral Corp., which last summer announced that the show would be limited...