Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue-grey hues. When O'Toole isn't reminiscing, he is bedding or about to bed Romy, a Crazy Horse stripper (Paula Prentiss), a groundling nymphomaniac (Capucine) or a nymphomaniac who descends by parachute (Ursula Andress). Sellers dresses up his cliche role with a pageboy wig and temper tantrums and is funnier than his costars, who play their parts as if for their own amusement...
...swashbuckling ex-bandit who had killed 20 men before he was 30. His mustache bristled, his eyes burned black, and his temper was so violent that his personal physician forbade him to eat meat. He drove his ragged armies to the spectacular victories that finally brought the revolution to power. Then, claiming its leaders were corrupt, he spent the next six years trying to destroy them, finally retired in disgrace. Ever since his death in 1923, Mexicans have argued whether Pancho Villa was the Robin Hood he claimed to be-or just an ambitious hood...
Unfortunately, he too often let his temper get the best of him. Impatient with arguments, sensitive to the superior ways of his fellow revolutionaries, Villa grew more and more adamant in his own views of how the new government should be shaped, more and more convinced that those who disagreed with him were enemies trying to usurp the revolution. He once flew into a rage at the powerful General Alvaro Obregón, ordered him at gunpoint to cosign a rebellious telegram, then had to retire for more than an hour to restrain himself from shooting Obregon...
Hunters have a habit of excusing the rhino's evil temper (he's nearsighted) and the rogue elephant's murderous charge (he probably has a toothache). But hardly anybody has a good word for the shark. On any coastline, the cry "Shark!" is guaranteed to produce 1) instant panic in the local chamber of commerce, and 2) a sudden boom in swimming-pool sales. Sailors blaze away at passing sharks with rifles and shotguns, ichthyologists denounce them as witless garbage disposals, and many a fisherman disgustedly reels in his bait at the first glimpse of a triangular...
...Fought Back." In his weeks of patient, plodding work on the bill, Morgan only once lost his temper. That was after Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged that economic and military aid be handled as separate bills. The Administration sent Morgan a 68-page draft that went at least part way toward appeasing Fulbright. To Morgan, that was murder: he was convinced that many Congressmen would seize upon separate bills as an opportunity to kill economic aid altogether. "I fought back," he says. "I told the President point-blank that the day you take...