Word: self-control
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...year term. Disadvantage was that, by disrupting island economy even more thoroughly than it will probably be disrupted by independence in 1946, it might react greatly to the discredit of its sponsor. President Roosevelt appointed a committee to investigate the islands, determine how the transition to economic self-control should be effected. This gave Shadow Boxer Quezon a chance for some more spirited footwork in which he did his best to make a favorable impression on the committee by permitting his unicameral legislature to legalize a scheme for woman suffrage which he had previously attempted to forestall (TIME, Sept...
...university students have any understanding of their own interest, and more especially if they have any appreciation of their birthright as American citizens and any willingness to support and defend democratic principles for the common good, they will put aside childish things now. They will prove, by restraint and self-control, their worthiness to be leaders. --Transcript
...witnessed performances of five of his recent works in as many different capitals. The rare musical gift Frederika is merely the forerunner of a cycle." So reads a program note in this collaboration between Composer Lehar and the Producers Shubert, which was received by Manhattan first-nighters with self-control bordering on ennui...
...more value even than the intrinsic subject of the group, the leader of a boys' club teaches self-control and good sportsmanship...
Author Montherlant writes with brilliant self-control, never smirks, nudges or winks. Result is a portrait that is both bitingly just and hilariously sympathetic. He is not so objective with some of the minor characters, notably Mile de Bauret, a type of modern young woman that he admits makes him shudder: "Mile de Bauret had a taste for letters and the arts, but her literary education only commenced with the end of the 19th Century. Which is to say it amounted to nothing. She looked at the world and explained it in terms of the pet theories...