Word: temperers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fireworks. In Detroit tough negotiations between the U.A.W. and the big three auto companies were under way in a climate of depression and gloom, with few rank and filers in a mood to strike for Reuthers pet profit-sharing plan (see BUSINESS). At the hearing table, Reuther kept his temper, thereby took the teeth out of traps carefully...
...weeks end, after Committee Accountant Carmine Bellino gave the U.A.W. top marks for accounting procedures and no corruption. Chairman John McClellan gaveleed the hearing to a halt. In four days, little had been accomplished. Good Publilc Relations Man Reuther. with a leashed temper and soft sell, had made no new enemies. More important to him, he had even discomfited those he already...
This is a promising first novel that breaks a lot of its promises. It promises a richly informative account of voodoo and the Haitian mind and temper, but much of it is just tom-tommyrot. It promises distinction of thought, but a jungle growth of involuted sentences often chokes meaning in mannerism. It promises a clash between the life of instinct and the life-in-death of inhibition, but the conflict is reduced to a kind of nagging suburbanality about a dissatisfied wife. Still, the tropical scenery is far more fascinating than most suburbs...
Back to the Attack. Swallowing hard, Wingate obeyed a hurriedly scrawled note from one of the producers: "Don't lose your temper-let him carry it." He even managed to put some more questions. But when Churchill heard one asking him to explain his charge that Americans have "deteriorated in character," he returned to the attack: "Everybody wants to do the same thing, and they're frightened and bulldozed, even bullied, often by people like yourself. I mean I'm not frightened of you. Why the hell should I be? I mean I'm leaving...
...smuggling 150 pairs of nylons. ¶Poland's all-star soccer forward, Kazimierz Trampisz, is getting flayed by both Radio Warsaw and Warsaw's newspaper, Sztandar Mlodych. His shocking behavior, say Trampisz' critics, rates him a three-year suspension. In a game at Cracow, his temper stoked with vodka, Trampisz dropped his shores, and gesticulated at the crowd. Once before, reported the paper, ''he dropped his shorts and stuck out toward the public that part of his body below the back." To make matters worse, Trampisz ''is one of very few major-league...