Word: self-control
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...kicking a cup of hot chocolate so that it spattered over a policeman's uniform-and the sounds of scrubbing as paper towels were used to clean up the mess. As the night wore on, Sirhan's voice grew stronger, underlining his return to a state of self-control. He began fencing with his interrogators, even flattering them on occasion with Dale Carnegie-like sincerity. "I appreciate that," he would say, or "I respect you for that." He twitted one man about his age ("You must have married late") and his weight ("Like all Americans physical health gone...
...statement emphatically endorsing the professors' stand, "is that now the threats to academic liberty and integrity often come from within." Declared Pusey: "Harvard has the right to expect that members of its faculties and the great majority of its students will have sufficient understanding, historical sense, reason and self-control to insist that coercive methods have no place in this university community." Harvard has been able to count on such understanding in the past. Whether it can continue to do so, at a time when some students are increasingly intoxicated with their own power, is an open question...
...husband comes home from work and yawns, "How was your day, dear?" Wife (pleasantly): "O.K. How was yours?" Husband: "Oh, you know, the usual." When disagreements loom, they take refuge in the newspaper, TV or "etiquette-upmanship," a self-righteous silent treatment rationalized by the thought that self-control is more virtuous than disagreement. Argue Authors Bach and Wyden: "A marriage that operates on the after-you-my-dear-Al-phonse principle may last a lifetime-a lifetime of fake accommodation, monotony, self-deception and contempt...
...forum for O'Connor to express the reasons why he is resisting. We are expressing our solidarity with him and all of those who are taking similar stands. We all lack the basic control of our own lives, that is the essence of true democracy. The only difference is that the soldier knows he is being controlled and manipulated, while we are given the illusion of self-control," the statement said...
Rugby tradition dictates that sports-manship and self-control are as necessary to a rugger as are good wind and sturdy legs. Talking in the scrum, profanity, and protesting a referee's decision are not tolerated...