Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barber was pitching Class D ball down in Pensacola last year," says Richards. "Won seven and lost eleven. Temperamental kid. We told him if he could get hold of his temper he could make it with us, and he did. We knew Estrada had it. He won 14 and lost six at Vancouver last year. With all our kids, we develop a basic pitch they can get over when they have to with some stuff on it. Estrada's strike pitch is a fast ball that drops. Barber's is a slider. His fast ball moves around...
...shut the door in his rage. Three hours later, Ike walked from the room. "For the first time since I gave up smoking," he said, "I wanted a cigarette just to give myself something to do." In the privacy of the U.S. embassy later, Ike loosed his pent-up temper, swore vigorously, muttered over and over again, "I'm just...
...quite match Cantabrigian Snow at making an old school seem both old and a school. At rare moments, The Affair is even a touch exalted, as when a quavering nonagenarian don suddenly trumpets the underlying theme of the book: "Go now and do justice. If you can temper justice with mercy, do so. But go and do justice...
...different stripe than the rough and ready tycoons of the past, they are subdued, cautious, and vastly competent in the modern committee manner. All had to pass one prime admission test: they must have compatibility as well as ability. The man who raises his voice or loses his temper is frowned on, the lone wolf considered a troublemaker. This collective leadership, says one manager, "works like a dream. But to be brutally frank about it, if somebody ever came here who wouldn't fit in, we'd have our ways of taking care...
...this clubby atmosphere, John Loudon employs the same diplomatic skills to make things run smoothly as he does in the international world of oil. He is no desk pounder, has been known to lose his temper only once. Since the Group has an unwritten rule that decisions are never forced to a vote, Loudon, as the primus inter pares, tactfully arbitrates differences, suggests lines of agreement, sounds out his fellow directors. Four are Dutch: Lykle Schepers, 56, in charge of manufacturing, research, chemicals; Luitzen Brouwer. 49, exploration and production; Arnold Hofland, 59, marketing, personnel and Western Europe; and Loudon. Three...