Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temper of U.S. reaction was shown in Congress, where both houses unanimously voted posthumous decorations for the Privateer crew members. And the hollowness of the Russian accusations seemed to be established further by the finding of a second rubber life raft, of the type issued to the Privateer, picked up by a Swedish ship in the Baltic. The raft showed evidences of having been blasted on the water by high-powered airborne projectiles...
What Makes a Hungarian. Most of the Voice propagandists are natives of the countries to which they broadcast. Generally, the various language desks have preserved their national temper. The Russian desk can be as heavily humorous as Andrei Vishinsky, and just as ready with an old Russian proverb. The Hungarians are sentimental and fiercely nationalist. When Hungary's Red regime abolished the old Hungarian coat of arms, the Hungarian Voice cried: "These emblems speak not only of old glory, but of defeats, of knights, heroes, tales of adventure and fairies-everything that makes a Hungarian a Hungarian...
...rules of fate and chance, that scarred and willful old warbird, Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, should have been back home in Columbus, Ohio last week with a cane, a bad temper, a book of yellowed clippings and a half interest in a suburban gas station. Instead, after 38 years of derring-do, he was one of America's most famous and successful men-not only a kind of Buffalo Bill of the gasoline age, but an intimate of rulers, and a self-made captain of industry as well...
...indomitability had cropped out in him early, though not in the sense approved by Horatio Alger. He was the third child (in a family of five boys, three girls) of a Swiss-born construction contractor named William Rickenbacher.* Father Rickenbacher was a big, black-haired man with a violent temper and a deep belief in the cultural influences of a razor strop. Eddie, on the other hand, was driven by an unconquerable urge to make up his own rules and see that everybody else played by them. "I was just ornery," he says...
...moans about his "troubles," heard from his pinnacle of success, make some fans snicker with envy or disbelief. But the fact that his troubles stem largely from a walnut-hard competitive instinct, an inch-short temper and a worry wart as big as a baseball, makes them no less real...