Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more important than material welfare or forms of government is the temper of the people. The United Nations, Schumann Plan, Council of Europe and NATO Brinton regards as significant accomplishments in a nationalistic and individualistic climate which has compelled the Communists in France to "represent Communism as a special benefactor of the peasant proprietor and the small shopkeeper." Whether a formidable union of 300 million people with industrial might superior to that of America would really be desirable, is really academic, for Brinton's shaggy simile declares attempts to form a sovereign union in nationalistic Europe "would be like asking...
After three months of mutually suspicious parleying, often held together only by the unflagging good temper of U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Jefferson Caffery, Britain and Egypt last week fell out over the Suez. They decided to suspend their talks-but not to end them. Actually, their many original disagreements had been narrowed to two: ¶ Egypt's demand that the 4,000 British technicians (slated to stay on for 5½ years after 80,000 British troops leave, in order to train Egyptian replacements) wear civvies; Britain insists that they stay in uniform...
...succession, he is deceived by his wife, played for a sucker by an aspiring actress (Evelyn Keyes), unjustly accused of assault & battery, framed for murder, hammered to a pulp by one gangster, pistol-whipped by another, and shot by a third. Before it is too late, Payne loses his temper and beats up everybody in sight-a magic Hollywood formula that enables him to corral all the criminals, clear his name, and settle down happily in a rose-covered gas station with Actress Keyes, who has had a change of heart...
...fashioned farewell party with cakes and punch. It also gave him a valued present: the key to his workshop. The old belts and pulleys still whisper overhead. The old lathe can still turn out beautifully finished parts, and the old forge stands ready to give a fine temper to steel. These tools will die with Kramer, so the Smithsonian says he may enjoy their friendship as long as he is able...
...neither more nor less than a fibre of genius shining thro' positive delirium and crackbrainedness." Robert Browning was "loudish and talkative beyond need." Even Emerson, who boosted Carlyle's American reputation and mailed him his U.S. royalties, irked the grumpy Scot with his perennial good temper and "unsubduable placidity...