Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...display of Senator Goldwater's famous temper in Kansas City recently. The offenders were not "fresh jerks," but serious Americans seeking to meet the man of so much supposed presidential timber. How can we trust him with the hot line when something might come up on one of his dour days...
...later apologized for his impatience. "I'm sorry," he said. "I'm a little tired." His aides could wholeheartedly agree with that statement. Says one: "The pressure of the whole thing has really been getting him down. You know, he's always had a hot temper, and we used to joke about the day he'd punch some fresh jerk in the mouth. Let me tell you that in the past month or so it's ceased to be a joke...
What wears purple Bermuda shorts, walks like a man, hits like a man, and occasionally loses its temper like a man? A lady golf...
Though markedly willing to defend Russia internationally, she is an anti-Communist at home; it was at her insistence in 1959 that the government finally voted to dissolve the legally elected Communist government that had ruled Kerala state for 27 months. Her temper and her use of Nehru's magical name sometimes get her into trouble. On the hustings during by-election campaigns last summer, she threw temper tantrums when critical crowds heckled her, threatened on one occasion to report the "barbarians" to Daddy...
...cutting precision and he can outroar Times Square traffic, though he lacks the liquid melody that Gielgud supplies as the voice of Hamlet's father's unseen ghost. His hands punctuate the speeches with percussive rhythm and instinctive grace. He is virile, yet mannerly, as sweet of temper as he is quick to anger, and his wary eyes dart from foe to friend with the swiftness of thought...