Word: temperments
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...that Vellucci has formalized his leadership of the council with his accession to the mayoralty, we urge him, in guiding the city through the obstacles ahead, to temper his decisions with the compassion which has served Cambridge residents so well in the past...
...making him an outsider twice removed while in Prague. And then there was his father. Hayman stresses Kafka's relationship with his father as the principal formative influence upon his character, suggesting that it subliminally provided the subject matter for much of his writing. Physically imposing, with a frightening temper that he vented very discriminately on his children and the Czech employees in his fancy-goods shop. Herman Kafka terrorized young Franz with threats, public humiliation and arbitrary commandments. Kafka's earliest memory was of being whisked out of bed one night and dumped outdoors--punishment for being thirsty. Whoever...
...would pose as the vastly experienced, endlessly patient statesman, determined to keep talking peace in the face of this latest temper tantrum by his American opposite number. Haig gave him just that opportunity...
Liberal criticism, if less strident and more focused than that of the majority opinion, can help temper U.S. conduct in El Salvador. Critics must insure that El Salvador remains a non-military political problem and the solution primarily a political-economic one. Specifically they can help insure that we use our support of centrist President Jose Napoleon Duarte to pressure him to halt the excesses of the far right, plan for free elections, and go ahead with far-reaching land reforms...
...still to be the only solution." Apparently his words fell on deaf ears, for only three weeks later he was at it again, this time his rage triggered by a letter from a doctor who said college men should keep their feet dry or risk illness. In a poetic temper, he wrote. "The Crimson has alluded before to the specific instance of the walk between the Library and the Union, which--with other paths--one might suppose in their present condition to be licensed highways to the Stillman Infirmary...