Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a few months in this "Bastille of steel," the child developed a violent temper and symptoms of neurasthenia-whenever she heard a piece of displeasing music, she quietly vomited. But she also developed a precocious passion to become "a genius"-if possible, a poetic genius. In 1923, riots attended her first public recitation of a clamjamfry called...
...incomplete. Sometimes, although not as often as critics allege, it is deliberately misleading. This is an exasperating but thoroughly predictable practice. I think a reporter should expect the Government to gold-plate what it tells him, and assume it is his job to do what he can to temper it. The practical solution would seem to be to attend the briefings, regard them as a reportorial starting point, then go out and crosscheck. Certainly, that is the way the best correspondents in Viet Nam function...
...game was never more than a lopside rout. Harvard scored three runs in the first and three in the second, knocking Bruin ace Steve Kadison out of the box. Brown sent a parade of five pitchers to the mound, but none was able to temper the Crimson's red-hot hitting...
...shifts, day and night. I remember pulling a cart-load of scrap iron from a railway siding to the school (probably about ten miles), catching a few hours of sleep on a desk, and then taking my turn at the furnaces. The slogan then was "in the furnace we temper steel, outside we temper people...
...Yorty is certainly irascible, but he held his temper throughout the campaign, seemed almost cool in contrast to Jimmy. He pointed to the fact that he had cut city taxes, streamlined city government and improved garbage pickups. He outpolled Roosevelt 392,775 to 247,313, picked up 57.9% of the vote to Jimmy's 36.5%, with the rest going to six nonentities on the ballot...