Word: self-control
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...Illinois' "stuttering" machine, which mixes up the subject's reactions by playing his words back to him a fraction of a second after he has uttered them. "Are there any lasting effects from the experiment?" our query asked. She tried the machine, determined to show what self-control would do. "I started yapping gaily about TIME reporters being expendable," she related, "when the delaying action was switched on. Try as I might, I stammered, stuttered, strained, perspired, got red in the face and finally begged them to turn it off." There were no lasting effects...
...universally liked by his subjects," many of whom think him "an extreme egotist" and "rude." His humor "does tend to emphasize physical action," and "the viewer feels uncomfortable when Berle is obnoxious and gets applause for it . . . In summary, Berle violates a major value of American society-that of self-control...
...tense uncertain faces, personal tragedies have graven bitter lines. Often, helpless hysteria bursts through the curtain of self-control; at other times, Germans seek emotional relief by unburdening their life stories to any listener. Whining and self-pitying creep into ordinary Conversations. The Germans are not yet a happy people. How could they...
...freedom . . . Victory may be in your hands, but you are winning a greater thing than military victory, for you are vindicating the idea of freedom under international law." But then he got to his main point, that the U.S. must "stick to a hard, tough policy of self-denial and self-control . . . The greatest threat to world peace, the tremendous armed power of the Soviet Union, will still remain, even if the Korean fighting stops . . . We face a long period of world tension...
...evidence admitted. The eleven had had a proper trial; if anything, the long-suffering Judge Medina, heckled and insulted by the Reds' lawyers, had leaned over backward to be just. "If at times he did not conduct himself with the imperturbability of a Rhadamanthus [he] showed considerably greater self-control and forbearance than it is given to most judges to possess...