Word: temperedness
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Just before the concert was scheduled to begin in Birmingham, England, a local news photographer snapped an unauthorized shot of hot-tempered, camera-shy Conductor Leopold Stokowski, who blinked in anger and issued an ultimatum: hand over the film or there will be no concert. The photographer surrendered, waited patiently...
But O'Flaherty's romantic heat is well-tempered with chilly realism. Madden is fighting the English not so much for the noble cause of independence as because he hero-worships his company commander and feels "liberated" by complete surrender "to the authority of a leader." Old
Andrew Jackson, the nettle-tempered hero of the War of 1812, clashed with the Administration of President Monroe during the First Seminole War (1818). Jackson was given permission to pursue warring Indians across the border into Spanish Florida, but because of strained relations with Spain and England had orders to...
American Style. Downtown at the Statesman such outspokenness made newspaper legend. After World War II, when Pacific Coast feeling ran high against the return of the Japanese Americans from relocation camps, Sprague sharply defended Japanese American rights. One night he marched into the middle of an ugly-tempered anti-Japanese...
Ardor & Conscience. By 1554 Pinto was in Goa again, a wealthy man yearning for home after 17 years. But he had seen much and his conscience was troubled. His adventurer's gusto had always been tempered by suffering and a sense of sin. At just that time the body...