Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader of Zionism outside Israel fought back. He is Nahum Goldmann. 63, president of the World Zionist Organization and second only to Ben-Gurion in prestige among the world's Jews. Like B.-G.. he is noted for a percussion-cap temper and for scholarship (he reads 15 books a week, mostly on philosophy, astronomy, history and religious mysticism). Though Goldmann agrees that eventually all Jews should migrate to fsrael, he advocates a go-slow policy and feels that U.S. Jews deserve more recognition for their help (he even suggested that an observer from the World Zionist Organization...
...reconstruction of Athens was the literature of Greece itself. Whether describing the great homeward march of the Ten Thousand ("So. always cold and sometimes freezing, always hungry and sometimes starving, and always, always fighting, they held their own"), or the achievement of Aeschylus ("In a man of this heroic temper, a piercing insight into the awful truth of human anguish met supreme poetic power, and tragedy was brought into being"), or simply the Greek love of sport, she brought an entire civilization into clear and brilliant focus...
Gustav escaped trial when a medical examination proved him senile (he died in 1950), but the temper of the times demanded a Krupp in the dock. Though both the British and Russians declined to try Alfried, he and eleven directors were put on trial before a U.S. court at Nürnberg, were convicted of plundering the industries of conquered countries and exploiting slave labor. Alfried was sentenced to twelve years in prison and forced to forfeit his property, the only property seizure of the war crime trials; his directors got sentences ranging from two to twelve years. The head...
...streets, hanged and buried under the gallows at Tyburn. His head was stuck on a pike and exhibited at Westminster Hall. No fewer than ten Cromwellians were hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross as regicides; they died well, too-so well that Author Williamson felt obliged to temper his story with an epilogue that concludes: "For posterity, the gibbet at Charing Cross towers above the scaffold at Whitehall and, in the opinion of some, dwarfs it a little...
...Martin, is in the position of the ancient Danish King Canute, who demonstrated his human limitations by giving orders to the tides. Yet Martin made it clear that even if the U.S. economy is too strong for the Fed, some attempt must be made to control or at least temper its insatiable appetite for money. Said Martin: The Fed's tight-money policy will continue. The main danger is still inflation, and higher interest rates are "a very cheap price to pay" to check...