Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indeed on his way out. He had dismayed party professionals with his overeager, often ill-judged partisanship, e.g., his television attack on the Columbia Broadcasting System for failing to carry the Democratic campaign movie, The Pursuit of Happiness, from the convention hall (see PRESS). Among his associates, his temper and taut nerves had earned him the nickname of "Mr. Bang." And worst of all. during the convention he had fallen out with such Stevenson advisers as Jim Finnegan and Dave Lawrence over the timing of Stevenson's acceptance speech...
...Notice. Under the combined barrages of so many critics, the British and French governments began to temper their words. Simultaneously, Britain, France and the U.S. circulated among the London conference nations a plan for internationalization of the Suez Canal. Its chief provisions...
...flea circus, a hilarious yarn, sets the tone for this whole collection of 25 short stories by V. S. (for Victor Sawdon) Pritchett. At 55, Pritchett is perhaps the best literary critic now writing in English. He is also a subtle interpreter of national character and environment (The Spanish Temper) and an occasional but brilliant dabbler in fiction. He calls his short stories "the only kind of writing that has given me pleasure [and] always elated me." The elation is shared by the reader...
...this the young man lost his temper. "You are exceedingly stupid," he snapped. "If you don't know what I mean, well, let us leave it at that and trust to God that nothing happens...
...seers and courtiers who were enmeshed in Saul's downfall. But above them all towers brooding Saul, a complex, courageous, often noble man, whose tragic flaw carries him ineluctably through doubt and guilt to self-destruction under the eye of a Jehovah not far removed, in time or temper, from Sophocles' Zeus...