Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crowther denies that his food-raising for the Bantus had any political motivation, but now his temper is up. "The church has to oppose this government," he says, "because what the church stands for and what this government stands for are totally different concepts of the doctrine...
Hard on the Hearing. Auerbach's temper is legendary: when the Celtics blew a six-point lead against the New York Knickerbockers one night recently, he called a time-out and gave them a dressing down in full hearing of practically everybody at Madison Square Garden. "Oh, did I blow," Red recalled last week. "I chewed them out like they've never been chewed before...
...manageable because business and Government pursued intelligent policies this year. The Labor Department reckons that businessmen's exuberant capital spending?they have invested $190 billion in new plants and machines in the past five years?will pay off with a 3% productivity gain in 1966. That will serve to temper inflation, and so will the fact that the medicare bill will lift social security taxes $5.5 billion yearly beginning Jan. 1. As of now, Government economists expect that consumer prices will rise about 2.5% and wholesale prices will increase 3%?which is not bad enough to require stern corrective...
...N.Y.U. foil fencers have probably the best foil contingent in the country. The Crimson has junior Tom Musliner, all-Ivy last year, and captain Rick Kolombatovich, who was out most of last year with an ankle injury. If they have a good day and if sophomore Chuck Lowell can temper his speed with blade control, Harvard has a chance, Marion said...
...ever new, ever more outlandish forms of excitement, from using jet engines to shoot up, not down, the wicked rapids of the Colorado River, to musk-ox wrangling. The latter was said to be impossible since the musk ox is a strong, quick animal with a very short temper. But John Teal, a Harvard man who did graduate work in anthropology and geography at Yale, captured 67 musk oxen on Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea, mostly by driving them into the freezing water, then swimming after them and wrestling them ashore...