Word: temperments
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...from the wedding-cake palace balcony, uncorked a brave "Viva la perla de las Antillas!" The world's most celebrated cigar-smoker relaxed in the land of plenty. Given 100 Havanas by the Minister of Agriculture, he responded with a testimonial: "They have a good effect on my temper...
...have considered the war warning was intended to suggest ... likelihood of an air attack. ... [There was no] dereliction of duty on my part." But his questioners drew out the fact that the day after the "war warning," he had ordered depth bombing of any suspectedly hostile submarines. Admiral Kimmers temper began showing signs of wear...
...warped perspectives against battlefield dangers, often make better-than-adequate soldiers. A few of history's notables-Ivan the Terrible, a manic depressive; Julius Caesar, an epileptic; Alexander the Great, sometimes called the "divine lunatic"; and Peter the Great, who killed his own men in fits of temper-were good soldiers in spite of-or perhaps because of-their mental ills. The Army Medical Corps' Major William Needles has decided that nervous handicaps may act as psychological crutches...
...fiery temper has occasionally impelled Chateaubriand to language that no family journalist should use. Just after one of his papers had guttersniped a dashing engineer named Clito Bockel, Chateaubriand found himself toasting an air force officer at an Aero Club plane christening. The officer responded, "I am Clito Bockel's brother," and knocked the publisher down. Livid with passion, Chateaubriand drew his pistol and, with indifferent aim grazed Bockel's cheek, shot his chief editorial writer...
...religious holiday, Christmas 1945 had, at least in the secret mind of those who shared the Christian vision, a new solemnity. Well might they read with a new anguish of hope, a new resoluteness of faith, a new temper of charity, the age-old words-perhaps the most perfect ever uttered...