Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early last September, the President wrote twelve steel company chiefs, urging them to battle inflation by holding the price line, pledged that if they did so, he would urge Steelworkers to temper their wage demands. Since then, he has wooed U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough in private chats. Fortnight ago, Kennedy and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg huddled secretly for two hours one evening in the White House with McDonald and Blough. Kennedy wants 1) a quick settlement to head off any first-half splurge and second-half slump in inventory buying, 2) no increase in prices, and 3) only such...
Although the game was not a free-for all (the Crimson's beautiful play-making prevented that), Boston College did infuse a little hot temper into the play occasionally and accordingly drew seven penalties. The Crimson got six penalties itself, but two of three of these were committed more-or-less in self-defense...
Although he is a masterly performer of Beethoven and Brahms. Stern, 41. is the only topflight violinist who regularly plays the modern masters-Prokofiev, Hindemith, Bartok, Berg. Each performance is a marriage of technique with the temper of the music. "I don't want to be known only as a violinist," Stern once said. "I want to be a player of music-one whose instrument just happens to be the violin." His ambition is snared by his peers...
After the conservative forces were resoundingly defeated in their efforts to temper the protest against the HUAC, Phillips retorted, "I think from the Conservative viewpoint the Congress was a success, because it shows the futility of working within...
...botch the British made of India. Perhaps now we shall understand Forster's book better. It talks about India, and blames the British for acting like gods; they were not big enough-and who is?-to rule another people. But it also enters a plea for tolerance, good temper, and sympathy-qualities which are not enough in this world, but still are something...