Word: self-control
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...immoral effigies" of ladies constructed of gourds and coconut shells. They were brightly but lightly dressed in "a set of signal flags." Inside the cave were bucketfuls of pink sea shells. "I made myself pay one [pink shell] every time I went . . .," Bunt explained, hoping that this example of self-control would show that he had tried at least to keep some check on his Buntism...
...slip and woman's panties under his own clothes. Since he had been arrested for a similar offense nine months before, Jim was examined by psychiatrists. Their conclusion: the tall, husky boy, although physically normal, was a transvestite* who was losing not only his sexual identity but his self-control, and should be put away as "potentially dangerous." Jim faced a black future. As with other sex deviates, confinement might intensify his condition, prepare him for further offenses and a lifetime of abnormality after release. Because he had already begun to act out his neuroses, many private psychoanalysts would...
...Controls. Ryther's psychiatrists were convinced that Jim was not essentially effeminate; they believed that his exhibitionism was, in fact, a rebellion against the part that his mother had encouraged him to play. While therapy and interviews were uncovering significant material, he underwent no overnight transformation. But firm controls at the center helped him improve his own self-control, and the counselors' patently impartial concern for his welfare brought him slowly to understand his problem and its causes. He began to exert himself, gruffly ordering younger children to obey the center staff...
...alert and able to do things fast, he is restrained in thought, perception and action. Concerned about making a good impression on others, he already has a good one of himself; he must have an inner need to be conscientious, persevering and hardworking. Above all, he must have good self-control...
...Self-Control. In Columbus, Ohio, former Ohio Highway Director Hal Sours was trapped by a radar speeding device he had sold to the city in 1949, fined...