Word: temper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier's temper aroused, Marshall went on to discuss the plight of China's armies. Recalling his mission to China, Marshall said: "I told them that no operation could be successful until they first had trained troops and sent these troops to battle under competent leadership. There hasn't been any lack of advice. It's been continuous and emphatic and ignored!" He listed the military help the U.S. had already provided since the arms embargo was lifted last May: 130 million rounds of small arms ammunition, 150 C46 transports and 80 light combat planes...
Rough and frequent outbursts of temper, a goal apiece for Eliot's Fred Ecker. Bert Van Ingen, and George O'Neill, and a crowded penalty box marked the fracas. As for the hockey prowess displayed, it was dubbed "not particularly brilliant" by unanimous consent of both teams...
Food Minister John Strachey, who keeps Britons' rations short, is long of nose, patience and temper. He has smiled tolerantly through many a public heckling from food-short Britons. Last week he got it hot & heavy again from howling Scots housewives in his own constituency at Dundee: "We want food; we don't want empty promises." Outside, after the speech, a crowd of women gave him a raucous parting boo. There was clearly nothing a gentleman could say, but what a gentleman could do John Strachey did: very courteously, he tipped...
Everyone who had a badge, a temper and a yen for authority took part. The U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Ice Hockey Federation are supposed to pick the U.S. team jointly, but since they were backing rival teams, two teams were sent to Switzerland, neither properly accredited. At the peak of the bickering, stuff-shirted Avery Brundage, the U.S. Olympic chairman, issued a pompous communique announcing that "a great victory has been achieved . . ." but he proved to be the only one who thought so. The International Olympic Committee sided with Brundage. But the Swiss, who as hosts were...
Little v. Big. Landis held his temper, bowed out with a statement that he was "against monopolistic practices and a number of other things that [the airlines] are doing...