Word: temperate
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...tone and temper, Governor Dewey's proposals were more impressive than the Administration's, though he had the advantage of being able to call for acts and programs he did not have to deliver on. Timed as it was, Governor Dewey's forceful speech put the prestige of the Republican Party's titular head behind all that President Truman proposed to do, and then some...
...concerned who seemed to have kept his head. Said he: "I can only say that a man suffering the loss of a close friend [Press Secretary Charles G. Ross] and carrying the terrible burden of the present world crisis ought to be indulged in an occasional outburst of temper...
Congress does not write a foreign policy. But the temper of the nation's 531 lawmakers has a persuasive effect on the Administration. A grim Congress was almost fatalistically ready last week for an international showdown...
...Alley's merry little elves of music, the tunesmiths and the record makers, have tied on their long white whiskers. Last week record counters were loaded as usual with Christmas productions for every age, taste and temper. There were The Man with the Bag, Christmas in Killarney, Christmas in My Heart, Christmas in Heaven, Christmas Alone, Santa Send Someone to Me, When It's Christmas on the Range, Blue Christmas (Billy Eckstine), etc., as well as the perennial White Christmas. One to avoid: Boogie Woogie Santa Claus. A good one, particularly for youngsters: The Twelve Days of Christmas...
...What Junk?" In Hitler Directs His War, Bryn Mawr History Professor Felix Gilbert has edited the fragments with main attention to the temper and character of Adolf Hitler, reduced many technical and tactical sessions to synopsis treatment in an appendix. One of the first things that struck Editor Gilbert was the way Hitler's personality dominated the conferences-and the vindictive "meanness" of the man's mind. One example: his treatment of hard-pressed Field Marshal von Kluge, whom he called back from the Eastern Front on July 26, 1943, to inform him that some of his Panzer...