Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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True to form, the Canadian Communists stepped up the beat on their peace drums. Stopping off to speak in Saskatoon on his way to the Calgary Stampede, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was angered by Communist pamphlets. In hot, high temper he cried: "We can't in this world expect rights to be respected merely because they are rights. We have to have strength to enforce respect. You don't get peace by talking about...
Throughout this ordeal, which would have had many a tournament player gnashing his teeth, Locke never changed expression. He said later: "I swallowed my feelings and determined to forget it. Temper gets one nowhere...
Despite the disastrous fifth, Locke salvaged a 72 that day, two strokes behind Welshman Dai Rees. And during the final 36 holes, played the following day, Locke kept both his temper and his strokes well in hand. His morning round of 70 brought him to a three-way tie with Rees and Argentine Roberto de Vicenzo. His final 18-hole round was right off the assembly line for a 68, and a four-round total of 279-two strokes ahead of De Vicenzo, three ahead of Rees, four better than the 58-year record for the British Open...
Most Japanese, shocked by Communist violence, thought the general's action overdue. "Well, MacArthur lost his temper at last," said a maritime union leader. "I would have lost my temper, too, at that Red gang." Occupation officials were pleased that MacArthur had neutralized Communist leadership without driving the party underground by banning it completely. It was fitting, they felt, that Japan's top Communists had been given the same purge treatment applied earlier to the nation's World War II militarists. "We've clipped their fangs scientifically," said one U.S. officer...
John was 29 and well set up in the law before he ventured to take unto himself a wife, Abigail Smith, the daughter of a Weymouth preacher. She was a lively girl of great charm and moral force who bore John's testy temper and four children (including a future President, John Quincy) with all wifely aplomb...