Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Temper & Civility. As the committee got down to the cross-examining of Acheson, a calm seemed to settle over the hearing room. Not in years had an investigation in which feelings ran so high been conducted in so temperate and fair-minded a fashion. Both parties were duly sensitive to political nuances, but even more sensitive to the perilous complexities of the issues they discussed...
...when he lost the 24th hole with his second consecutive 6 (leaving Coe only 1 down), steady Dick Chapman blew up, seemed on the point of blowing the match. He hurled his cigarette to the ground, petulantly kicked the turf and bawled out his caddy. After the fit of temper his wife took him aside and gave him a stern lecture. "What are you," she demanded, "a man or a mouse...
Behind De Lattre's show of temper was a serious argument: the French feel that the British are still not tough enough in their Asia policy. France wants a coordinated Western command, capable of countering Communism's offensive in Southeast Asia. After four days of discussion, De Lattre left the conference with an important promise for his Indo-China army: he would get more U.S. planes, particularly transports. But he did not get the assurance of effective military cooperation that he wanted...
This time it was Britain's elegantly modern Royal Festival Hall that ruffled the terrible temper of Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. Not in the past 350 years, Sir Thomas roared, had anyone seen "a more repellent, a more unattractive, a more monstrous structure...
...Chamber of Commerce meeting in Springfield, Mo. saw a fleeting example of a well-known family temper. Looking at a civil defense pamphlet on the atom bomb, an insurance agent quipped: "They ought to drop one of these on Old Harry." At this, Major General (ret.) Ralph Truman, 70-year-old cousin of the President, aimed a roundhouse right, missed the agent, but knocked off his hat before the two were separated...