Word: self-control
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Through his first frenzied months in office, Iraq's lean and ascetic Premier Karim Kassem snatched a few hours sleep nightly on a couch near his office desk. Visitors to his Baghdad Defense Ministry headquarters were impressed by his tightly reined self-control and the masklike grin he wore. But the assassin's bullets that crumpled his left shoulder last October seem to have shattered the mask, and perhaps shattered Kassem's tight self-control as well...
...perfect. His God-fearing parents of modest means, the excellence of his record in school, his beginnings as a lawyer in Whittier (known as "Ye Friendly Town"), and his liking for pineapple milk shakes are all almost too good to be true. He has an amazing degree of self-control and neatness-the secretary of his old Whittier law firm recalls that when he came to work, the first thing he did was to take several hundred books off the shelves to dust them-and these qualities also mark him in his public life. And yet, says Author Mazo. "nothing...
When one considers the past track season in retrospect, it becomes more and more apparent that Crimson coach Bill McCurdy's retaining his effervescent joviality at all times was either a heroic job of self-control, or complete resignation to the inevitable...
...Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools because it refused to dilute its academic standards with shop and cooking courses. A sample of the canons by which such schools are judged: "Is the control and atmosphere of the individual's rooms and classes based upon teacher authority or group self-control and group-defined standards? To what extent are opportunities provided for children to develop moral and spiritual values through the process of direct experience in working with each other...
...average householder who sweated out 50 dreary minutes in fear that gangland killers would learn of his presence at one of their crimes. The show was just another dipperful of clabber out of Kraft Theater's antique churn. Berle played the shallowly written role with egregious self-control. Conscious of his dignity as a TV elder statesman, he liked the part because it was, said he proudly, "something unbrash, unflippant and unaggressive-I wanted to get away from the Berle trademarks...