Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like reading the first paragraph of this review, over and over. Can you imagine a book written like this review? The self-indulgent asides, the outrageous similes, the conversational tone--all these become pretty deadening after a while. And by the time Bissell comes out with "a temper like a keg full of rattle-snakes" we know we have had one simile too many. The tolerance limit is 17 pages a day. And only members of Richard Bissell's immediate family are advised to exceed...
...Nelson, 46, was out to slay a solon. And he had it all planned out. The intended victim was Alexander Wiley, 78, after 24 years the senior Republican in the U.S. Senate. The plan was simple: campaign energetically around the state, irk the old gentleman, let him lose his temper, and then shrug it all off as though it were pitiful proof of senility. The Nelson strategy worked...
...terrible mood. Washington kept shouting from the housetops that a Berlin crisis was imminent; Adenauer did not agree, and did not see what Washington wanted him to do about it. At noon a cable signed Schröder was placed on his desk, and within minutes the temper in Adenauer's office improved. The German Foreign Minister, visiting Washington, reported his considered judgment that the American uproar about Berlin had been started largely for domestic political reasons. No one he had talked to, reported Schroder, had any solid evidence that the Soviets were about to make any unusual...
...teamed with the mercurial Eddie Stanky to give Coogan's Bluff the best double-play combination in the National League. A pennant winner in his sophomore year as Giant manager, Dark runs the club with the solicitude of a tenderhearted drill sergeant. He never swears, but his temper is legendary: enraged by a 1-0 loss to the Phillies last year, he tore off the tip of one finger throwing a metal stool in the locker room. This year he intends to keep everything intact. "I knew we'd win the playoff," he said, confidently...
...Germany-notably Dominican Yves Congar-have started to think out a "theology of the laity," based on the Pauline doctrine of the "priesthood of the faithful." Sensing the temper of the times, such farsighted prelates as Montreal's Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger and Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing have established diocesan advisory councils of laymen...