Word: temperedness
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When the bureaumen are asked what they would do with the Columbia, they go into engineering ecstasy only slightly tempered with apology. Few parts of the West, they say, are wholly inaccessible to the water of Oregon.
The major had always been a somber, selfish man. But after his retirement from the British army in 1942, he also became moody, bad-tempered and depressed. At 55, he was deep in debt and drinking too much. He had delusions that he was being persecuted, and talked of suicide...
After two more months in the hospital, reported Dr. John Slorach last week in London's medical journal, the Lancet, the major was sent home. His wife reports that he is no longer tense or depressed, but just as bad-tempered and hard to live with as ever.
Prime Minister Nehru likes cleanliness. At a session of the governing committee of the All-India Congress Party in New Delhi last week, Nehru got annoyed at the way members threw banana skins on the floor. Quick-tempered Mr. Nehru got off his platform, and while lecturing members on cleanliness...
† Named for Pimlico's first winner, later bought by the quick-tempered Duke of Hamilton, who shot him in a moment of anger.