Word: temperments
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...prize property, thinks the difference between the Futurity's 6½ furlongs and the Derby's mile-and-a-quarter might not be too long a reach for a horse with Pavot's appetite and disposition. (The only time Pavot ever showed any sign of temper was in the Hopeful Stakes at Belmont last month, when Jockey George Woolf, intent on running a front race all the way, twice tapped him between the ears with the whip, both times got a turnaround dirty look from his mount...
Nonsense Is Not Enough. Britons could still laugh with Beachcomber. Newspapers seriously warned Prime Minister Winston Churchill's Government that it was facing a people with a very short temper. For Britons confronted a dilemma. The war was nearing its end and they wanted an end to wartime restrictions. But wartime restrictions had a bearing on peacetime security. Britons wanted security without interference. Whether or not the People's Plan, currently being plugged by Lord Beaverbrook's Express (see PRESS), reflected their mood, they were also all for the Beveridge Plan...
...judge lost his temper in Manhattan last month and fined seven downtown restaurant owners $775 because their glasses were dirty. During the month, 87 New York City restaurateurs got summonses for dirty dishes-the Health Department's last resort when all attempts to win proprietors and influence dishwashers failed...
...Franklin Roosevelt, in his 1943 mine-strike speech, gave "an outrageous exhibition of personal malice and dangerous bad temper." But Tom Dewey, said the resolution, is a "firm believer in equal justice, fearless, courageous and capable...
...Poland, the Balkans, France and China last week the tone, the temper, and even the social and political contours of a new freedom were taking shape. Well might Americans rub the sleep from their eyes and wonder what this new freedom in Europe and Asia would mean to their old freedom. It was too soon to tell. But one fact was inescapable: the world war was not over, but the postwar world was here...