Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until Christmas? Just after midnight, Cain abruptly ended his speech and demanded a quorum call. His filibuster had lasted 12 hours and 8 minutes.* The sergeant-at-arms began routing out snoozing Senators and, when he could not find enough, was ordered to arrest a few-a temper-raising procedure which had not been invoked since 1942. But arrests proved unnecessary as, one by one, Senators straggled in, grinning sheepishly as their waiting colleagues applauded each latecomer. For an hour the Senators wrangled. Lucas wanted an agreement to vote on the bill itself; Wherry demanded a vote on a motion...
None of Manhattan's bitter intramural feuds is waged with more desperate intensity and temper than the battle of the bus driver v. his passengers. To the riders, the driver is a chronically exasperated ogre who delights in abandoning them on rainy street corners, or, if he consents to take them aboard, greets them with insults and treats them to bone-crushing lurches. To the driver, the enemy is a hydra-headed beast: a door blocker, a purse fumbler, and willfully uninformed. Jockeying his big green and cream-colored juggernaut down congested Madison Avenue one day last week, Driver...
...temper and tactics of FDJ chieftains was well-expressed by agile, aggressive Robert Bialek, who explained: "We'll take care of our church and political enemies. You sock them in the teeth until they fall. Then they write a letter of protest. You let them get up, read the letter, and then knock them down again...
...conflicting engagements.'." Unanimously backed by some 50 civic groups sponsoring the event (including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who are stuck with a medal struck for Hopalong), Colonel Leonard turned the matter over to an attorney. He gave an even more ominous indication of the public temper: "You know what my kids did last night? They took an old safety razor and cut their Hopalong Cassidy clothes to bits...
...reaction of Bill Bingham, who took the call himself, can be characterized only as extremely rude. He lost his temper, and shouted into the phone so loudly that everyone in the room at the other end could hear him. He closed by telling the student, who paid for a participation ticket: "You don't have to use our boats. We don't keep them for people like you who complain." He then hung up on the student...