Word: temperments
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Moving from foreign trade to foreign relations, Khrushchev pulled out all the "peaceful coexistence" clichés, lost his aplomb (but not his temper) only when Chauncey W. Cook, president of General Foods, asked "Why is it necessary to build a Berlin Wall and shoot people down if they try to get over...
India won the skirmish, but the U.S. won the war. Ralston, the Peck's Bad Boy of tennis, for once kept his temper under control, beat Krishnan at his own sandy game, with short volleys and dinky drop shots that won in straight sets, 6-4, 6-1, 13-11. Texas' Chuck McKinley, mounting the same kind of whirlwind attack that earned him the Wimbledon championship, needed only 72 minutes to dispose of India's Permjit Lall, 6-4, 6-3, 6-0. Ralston and McKinley then won the doubles to give...
...with whatever they've got--the woods, a river bank, a motel room or borrowed apartment, the back seat of a car; a locked classroom and bare floor, if nothing else is available. It is a happy rule that men can no longer legislate away desire. They can only temper it with physical or mental discomfort or, if the night is cold, with a creeping fear of influenza...
...passing an effective civil rights bill this year; indeed it takes considerable optimism to say that there is even a chance of passing a bill at this session. This is a very unfortunate situation. For years much of America acknowledged that it had mistreated its Negro citizens, but the temper of the President, the composition of the Congress, or the feeling of the electorate stood in the way of effective legislation. It would be criminal if political bungling or squabbles within a committee killed a civil rights program this year, when meaningful legislation could be passed...
...architect, but of a person who takes an interest in his surroundings. The building appeared to me a very good one indeed. It was exciting, full of movement, possessed vitality and reflected not the vision of Christopher Wren or Thomas Jefferson but of our own time and our own temper. At that point I did not know the name of the architect or even the name or function served by the building, I stopped two undergraduates and inquired what the building was used for. They said it was the Health Center. Then I was sure the designer had been right...