Word: temperedness
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But for Americans, who like to think of themselves as the kindest and most generous people in the world, these gains were tempered by fresh evidence of the deep-rooted suspicion of the U.S. which many a European still nourishes. In the week that the first shipload of Friendship Train...
John L. Lewis is the most even-tempered man in Big Labor-he is always in, emerging from or entering a mood of righteous fury. But even John L. had a hard time last week thinking up some new way of showing his contempt for the big bosses of the...
It made Camillien feel good. While congratulatory wires and letters piled up on his desk, he lolled in his high-backed chair, chain-smoked, outlined his formula for political success. "I'm good-natured but quick-tempered," said he. "Also they tell me I am bighearted. I will never...
Dragging more as the end approaches, the play seems to have been written on a streetcar called "Hurry-up." A bumpy, uneven plot that strays off the track more than once, and a jolting dialogue that gathers speed only when heading downhill, suggest haste more than tempered reflection. The few...
A, Jack Koosan '47, chairman of the Zionist Society, tempered his enthusiasm with the statement that "this is the beginning of a tremendous job. The Jewish State is assured, put it is not yet established; it does, however, give us a new incentive."