Word: temperedness
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First of the ex-kings to fall was long-faced, impetuous Bill Tilden, whose tennis was good for a 53-year-old but not good enough to beat 30-year-old Wayne Sabin. Sabin advanced to the quarterfinals, there met Britain's onetime Davis Cupper Fred Perry. Falling behind...
This week, after a disappointing, 48-year adventure in tempered colonialism 6,965 miles from home, Destiny vacated its western terminus. The U.S. was the first great power in its right mind which had ever kept a promise to free a colony. But the power was happy to do it...
His grotesquely ill-tempered, little-boy prank of sticking out his tongue at His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (TIME, June 3) had given his Labor enemies a chance to jeer that he was in his second childhood, and had intensely embarrassed his fellow Tories. It...
The Old Vic's performers-using the late, great Poet William Butler Yeats's excellent translation-caught the clenched force of the play, and the grand dimensions. They played daringly, theatrically, with no mingy concessions to "realism"; but they tempered their intensity with style.
President Truman last week tempered Army justice with civilian mercy: Pfc. Joseph Hicswa, sentenced to death for the murder of two Japanese civilians during a drunken brawl (TIME, Jan. 28), will serve 30 years' imprisonment at hard labor instead. The President acted on the strength of a review by...