Word: temperedness
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The Socialists, with a sharp eye for a popular cause, clamored for a 20% cut in the Army's funds. Three times during an ill-tempered debate President de Gaulle made his now familiar threat to resign. At last, tired and hoarse, the disputants compromised: the military budget was...
Robert Moses, New York's panjandrum park commissioner, who has sounded off on just about everything and been righteously rude to just about everybody, let loose his Mosaic thunders at a small-statured victim. A stunt radio program had persuaded one of its audience-Lieut. Colonel William M. Hendrix...
At first, Francesca (Ann Todd), a beautiful pianist whose fairly simple liking of men and pianos has led her into a complex state of emotional bewilderment, won't tell her doctors what ails her. It takes narcosis, hypnosis and a few bars of musical therapy to snatch the last...
Navymen presented colored charts which purported to show how superior was the Navy's "National Security" plan (TIME, Nov. 5, Dec. 10) to the Army plan for out-&-out service merger. Navy Secretary Forrestal added the ill-tempered charge that the Army had "muzzled" its officers, forbidding them to...
Jimmy Byrnes's approach to a China policy had been frankly tempered by U.S. political implications, and he had put down his warnings in a memorandum to President Truman. The Secretary knew that a forthright, cooperative policy toward Chiang would bring down on the Administration the wrath of 1...