Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor. He is most effective in Senate committees (Foreign Relations, Banking & Currency and Small Business). His conduct at meetings has rarely varied. He begins by reading a newspaper, then falls into what seems to be a peaceful snooze. When the contending factions have shouted themselves into a near temper, John Sparkman will open his eyes, lean forward and quietly tell the most belligerent group: "We've got to give consideration to that ..." Then, displaying knowledge of the facts which had apparently put him to sleep, Sparkman will work toward a practical, mutually acceptable solution...
...experience taught him a lesson: a good jockey must control his temper. Since then, Arcaro has become the No. 1 money-winning rider in the world. Starting in 1938 on Lawrin, he won the Kentucky Derby five times, the Belmont Stakes five, the Preakness four. In 1941, he hit the Triple Crown jackpot with Whirlaway and again in 1948 with Citation. Last week at Chicago, Arcaro, 36, on a horse named Ascent, passed another milestone: winner of 3,000 races, a record for an American-born jockey...
Frank belatedly recalls a note of warning which he neglected to pass on to his successors. It seems that Frank wrote a story about Basilio, a 250-lb. ex-wrestler reputed to have the worst temper in all Brazil. Basilio didn't like the story, Frank heard later. From the security of TIME'S Bonn bureau, Frank cabled me recently: "My advice to Cran Jones: if a large, cauliflowered party shows up in my bureau, don't tell him your name isn't White. Neither he nor probably anybody else in Brazil would believe...
...probably knows most about the mind and mood of Communist Russia, came a report last week that set off uneasy stirrings in Washington. Six weeks after his return to Moscow for the first time in six years, U.S. Ambassador George Kennan was disturbed by Russia's change of temper, and the violence of its current hate-America campaign. He first sent home his alarms, and then this week flew from Moscow to London to discuss them with Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...still had ahead of him his formal plunge into partisan arguments and specific debates, but the 5,000 Kansans who clustered in the open field by the clapboard house knew the level and temper of his character. In simple, unmistakable words, the man had described his philosophical foundations. Now the candidate could go ahead...