Word: temperance
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Replied Delegate Vishinsky reprovingly: "Bad temper...
Such banzai tactics have set Brazilians on edge and stiffened the nation's previously tolerant temper against the Japanese. As police rounded up 27 leading terrorists in Sâo Paulo State, President Eurico Caspar Dutra last week ordered the deportation of 76 others. Said Rio's Correio da Manhâ: "We should not try to change their mentality-only their addresses." Correio's suggested new address: c/o Douglas MacArthur, Tokyo...
...third contender was another old hand: Detroit's curly-headed Southpaw Hal Newhouser. In his first five major-league seasons (1939-43), he had little control of his curve, less of his temper; he won 34 games, lost 52, threw away more than he likes to remember. Then one day he told Manager Steve O'Neill: "I'm going to win for you next year." He was voted the league's most valuable player in '44 and '45. Last week Hal shut out the Chicago White Sox with four hits for his 21st...
...week the head of ^ the rightist Greek Government, fat, cigar-smoking Premier Constantin Tsaldaris, was in London and gave a press conference. A correspondent confronted him with the UNRRA statement that supplies to Greece would be stopped because of political discrimination in handing them out, whereat Tsaldaris lost his temper and shouted: "Iff a lie, it's a slander! What right have you got to ask about the internal affairs of Greece?" The reporters began chanting "Freedom of the press!" and the Premier yelled and babbled until Greek officials hustled the audience out of earshot. One of the Greeks...
Toscanini's temper last week gave the Swiss city of Lucerne an unexpected treat...