Word: temperments
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...half hours, with as many as six alarms a day. But when Winston Churchill verbally thumbed his nose in answer to Herr Hitler's dire speech of warning, and when the R. A. F. lashed out at German targets harder than ever, the Fuhrer's temper broke. He ordered the works...
...quits the Supreme Court to run against Wilson, and almost wins, a period in history is already drawing to a close. Sometown's main street sees its first Preparedness Day parade, and in Washington the parade is led by Wilson himself. At Sagamore Hill. Theodore Roosevelt loses his temper. Five thousand men a day are dying, England sweeps and Germany combs the seas, and Sometown and the U. S. lose their tempers too. The man who was too proud to fight begins to feel in his bones that the only question is When. The day is April...
...will his dependence upon these National Saviors outlast the coming political campaign? We may depend upon the President to work harmoniously with them until election day, for, with the country in its present temper in the matter of armament, if they should give up on the ground that they could not work with the President, his defeat would appear certain. But will he continue to depend upon them in case he is elected...
...surrender their ships remained a major question. Bulk of the French Navy was believed to be in the Eastern Mediterranean. When the commandant of the naval base at Toulon announced that he and his men would fight on regardless of the armistices, that seemed a clue to the temper of French naval forces in the West. The French had been operating since September under direction of the British Admiralty. Presumably most of their ships were within Britain's power to hold and reman, if the personnel withdrew to save their relatives at home from punishment. If the ships were...
...psychological change in Daladier. He volunteers a new and, he believes, authentic, story to explain that change: during the meeting at Munich, when Hitler sprang his famous trick-new demands even more severe than those the British and French had already rejected at Godesberg-Daladier completely lost his temper, stalked out of the room and slammed the door...