Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managed to keep aid appropriations at last year's level--$3.2 billion. The President shifted payments to Laos, Thailand and NATO to the military budget; and held out loans totalling more than $3 million to international organizations like the Asian Development Bank until he could judge more closely the temper of Congress. At the same time Johnson sought to make all unavoidable aid cuts before the bill reached the House floor. As aid specialist William S. Gaud crowed enthusiastically, this is a "tight . . . bikini-type budget...
Time has not been entirely kind to Measure for Measure. The modern temper finds more humor than honor in struggles to preserve chastity. Moreover, there is something unappealing about nearly every character in the play. Though it has a happy ending, Measure for Measure is not a happy play. It is one of those dramas in which humanity seemed to raise a stench in Shakespeare's nostrils...
Oversight Function. The changed temper goes well beyond mere numbers and partisan disagreements over specific issues. The wide extent of the new mood was illustrated last week by statements from two high-ranking Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Vice President Hubert Humphrey...
Nothing serious erupted, despite Murphy's Irish temper, and the evening's last say went to Demment when he tipped a shot by Grimble past Nichol to raise the humiliation to a final...
...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. A radio heroine, beloved by millions for her sweetness and generosity, makes life a maelstrom for her intimates with her tyrannical temper and oppressive ways. Comedienne Beryl Reid makes British Playwright Frank Marcus' lesbian protagonist a most believable bully...