Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...character that could erupt into uxoricide. Then, in his big scenes, he abandoned himself to steady roaring, without climaxes or the delicate shading that devides the complete amateur from the budding professional. As a result, Othello was without depth, a man of stock motions, trite passions and an unbelievable temper...
...Negotiations in Korea show a temper of peace and have thus far been heartening," commented V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian delegate to the United Nations, during an interview with the CRIMSON Saturday afternoon...
...hope for the future of the nonviolent resistance movement. "One cannot underestimate the effect that the campaign in South Africa may have on the rest of Africa. If it has any measure of success, it will have importance far beyond the borders of South Africa. It may help to temper the terrorism of the Mau Mau group in Kenya. It will give new hope to nonviolent efforts for independence in West Africa. It could lead to a democratic, pan-African movement for freedom based on nonviolence. This would be of great significance not only for Africa but to the whole...
...take Japan's police and school systems out of the hands of local government, where the U.S. occupation placed them, and set them under the national government. The Yoshida program, they said, was a reversion to "evils of the past." Needled by opposition, delays, Yoshida lost his temper, called an opposition member an idiot. In the excessively polite Japanese language, this was an insult indeed. Though he hastily apologized, the opposition pressed home a vote of censure, followed it up with the nonconfidence motion. Yoshida thereupon dissolved the Diet, forcing new elections, to be held April...
...years of military service, Thomas ("Pop") Thornton of Hempstead, Texas, has bounced from sergeant to private and back again like a yoyo. Usually it was his half-Irish, half-English temper that cost him his stripes...