Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some day," she promises, "I am going to lose my temper. I've never done it, and I'm determined. But if you are going to throw a temperament you have to be damn sure you're right. Otherwise it won't quite come...
...Temper. Wherever Julie goes in Hollywood these days, the natives act embarrassed and fall all over themselves with a sense of shame for what Warner Bros, did to her. Hollywood people would not know quite how to act with her anyway, because they see her sort so rarely. She is straightforward, amiable, eager to please, and her only eccentricity is a fondness for boiled-potato sandwiches. She wears little makeup, even when she is being photographed. She is infectiously enthusiastic. No matter how much pressure she is under, she never boils over...
...that the council has already completed its essential job, in giving its imprimatur to worldwide currents of church renewal and in opening the doors to further free debate about still unseen change. Nonetheless, some Vaticanologists believe that a "purple backlash" of bishops whose zest for reform has cooled may temper the results of the council. Some U.S. prelates who privately shrug off their early enthusiasm for John XXIII may be inclined this session to side with the Roman Curia, which has worked skillfully to limit the council's powers. One sign of this veer toward conservatism: on the Rome...
...date at all. To get her to go to the high school graduation banquet, my fiancé took Bird as his date and I went with another boy. She didn't like to be called Lady Bird, so we'd call her Bird to get her little temper going. My mother would call her Cat. She'd say, 'All right, pull your claws in, Cat.' And when the rest of the gang was in the house. Bird would sneak in the back door and talk to my mother. She was a chatterbox...
...Negro member of the Platform Committee, George A. Parker from the District of Columbia, was not satisfied. He doubted that Gold water could "consistently, conscientiously and in good faith use the powers and prestige" of the presidency to carry out the civil rights law. Goldwater flushed, but held his temper. "When you use that argument," he said, "you are questioning my honesty, and I should resent it but I won't." Parker insisted that he was doing no such thing. Said Goldwater: "Well, you are, sir. I will uphold that law because it is the voice of the majority...