Word: temperments
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...most trying experience since his painful vigil at Gibraltar during the early hours of the African invasion. At such times the carefully controlled Eisenhower temper bends under the strain; he hates uncertainty. All he could do now was to pace around headquarters, scribble memos to himself, a set habit at such times. One of his self-memos could stand as a masterpiece of military understatement: "Now I'd like a few reports." He doodled with his pencil, barked at his aides...
...case, indicated that they might relent later. Said one Committeeman: "If he does something gallant in the field, if he makes a good record in the invasion, he'll probably come through all right. But he'll have to keep his mouth shut and control his temper...
...Temper-Bad. The New Dealing Chicago Sun's Thomas F. Reynolds usually sympathetic to the President summed up his press-conference impression of the President in seven words: "Health-apparently good. Temper-bad, very...
...people call her "La Maciste," after an Italian clown in the old silent movies. But they dare not laugh at her in public. Privately, they gibe at her mannish jackets, her flowing skirts, her famed temper. But her own physique, her ready pistol, and her influence with the Dictator guard La Maciste when she strides like a walking statue through the streets of Guatemala City...
...companions, before lunching alone on bread, cheese, beer. Last week Writer-Critic Harold Laski depicted the Bevin of 1944: "Mr. Bevin has never, since he emerged as a trade-union leader of importance, liked criticism, still less opposition. ... He is always certain that he is right. . . . Masterful in temper, obstinate in disposition, accustomed . . . to give orders which must be obeyed...