Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this good temper was a little harder to explain, for beyond simply counting noses, the Government was setting out on a curbstone character reading of the country. One citizen in five who had reached the age of 14 was being asked how much money he made. The 140,000 census enumerators-all of them equipped with red, white & blue portfolios as big as window shutters-also wanted the answers to 418 square inches of questions in fine print...
...Morning Coat to Shirtsleeves. All week the Socialists tried to prove that the Liberal fears were justified; in so doing, they showed the world another, little-known side of the Belgian temper. At times, stolid sensible Brussels seemed more like the "Red belt" of Paris or a riot-torn Italian piazza...
...America appealed for a permanent commission to inculcate "moral and spiritual values" into the U.S. public school system. But Boston University's President, black-browed, white-haired Methodist Minister Daniel L. Marsh, resplendent in a self-designed scarlet mortarboard and scarlet robe with ermine epaulets, dramatized the new temper of the times in terms any freshman could understand. In his address he called attention to the fact that the new limestone chapel, which bears his name, adjoins the new theology school on one side, and the colleges of Liberal Arts and Business Administration on the other. Not only that...
...bleeding ... all over the pillow . . . You're rather exciting when you lose your temper. I wish you'd do it oftener . . . What are you crawling about...
...more than a theoretical Marxist. His talent and the stages of his career tend to parallel those of Stalin. He is unquestionably a first-rate organizer, with a flair for totalitarian political management. As a party intellectual, he is a sort of lower middlebrow, whose unshakeable ideological orthodoxy is tempered with hard common sense. He is tough and abusive to his associates-perhaps the same temper that the dying Lenin found obnoxious when he wrote, before his death, that "Comrade Stalin is too rude." Malenkov uses the Russian equivalents of four-letter words, and behind his back his underlings have...