Word: temperedly
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...years ago Bernanos might have been dismissed as a modern Don Quixote. The dismissal is no longer possible. Even North Americans, to whom his seignorial temper may at first seem foreign, can recognize in his concept of "honor" a virtue familiar to them1 in their own great men and called by them "responsibility." (He reminds Americans, too, that while their arsenal of Democracy helped to save England, the heroic example of England saved American democracy from committing its own stupendous Munich...
...When his temper cooled, Lamont pointed out that his yard was several months ahead of schedule, that it had received the Navy "E" for efficiency...
Broad Grant. Bald, faithful Speaker Sam Rayburn, who rushed back from a vacation on his Texas ranch to steer some kind of measure quickly through the House, soon sensed Congress' temper. He and the House majority leader, tall, toothy John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, huddled with the President, made their plans...
...summon the spirit of the British people because he represents policies they deeply distrust." Laborite Bevan was so biliously personal that even London's most liberal columnist, A. J. Cummings of the News Chronicle, called him "an arch-exhibitionist . . . who gave a deplorable exhibition of bad manners, bad temper and bad criticism...
Penning two wrathful letters, Huaraca XXVI signed them with the imperial three feathers and crown and sent them off to rap the knuckles of the guilty parties: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ecuador's President Carlos Arroyo del Rio. Then the imperial temper cooled. Huaraca XXVI was ready to lease his land to the U.S. for the war's duration for an "adequate rental...