Word: temperments
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Logue has a swift temper; he is used to dealing with a high-powered, swift-moving, technically-oriented bureaucracy. Working easily with persistent, often stubborn, occasionally inarticulate people has never been one of his strong points. Snide and inflexible when things aren't going his way, Logue lacks the diplomacy that would commend him to the sensitive office of Mayor...
Last month he was in the White House reporting to President Johnson on the troubled temper of the nation's cities. Three weeks ago he was in Saigon observing the Vietnamese elections...
Congress recessed last week for its own ten-day version of the Labor Day weekend, its direction so uncertain, its temper so fractious that few would be so bold as to forecast its final record...
...wore it. Chicago Daily News Columnist Virginia Kay was also puzzled. She did some checking and printed the results. The officer, she said, was a South African and so were the blacks he was beating at Durban in 1960. Concluded Mrs. Kay: "Looks like the university needs to temper its ads with a bit of honesty...
...which the father's word was law, and, whereas the Negro's basic spirituality has been castrated by the splintering of sects within the Negro community, the Irish exiles were united in one strong religious faith. Thus, young Paddy could be kept from allowing his fine temper to prevail by fear of family wrath-or worse, a session with the priest. But more's the power to you, Mr. Moynihan. A grand young man like you could even give the Kennedys a run for their money...