Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make "hard" or "soft" attitudes toward Castro an enormously significant political issue. In an election year, when the powers that be are touchy and the powers that would like to be measure fierce accusations of columny and impotence lightly, the U.S. is alarmingly susceptible to warlike recommendations. The present temper of the Congress and of the press holds the very real capacity to bully the Administration into a stupidly aggressive action that would likely lead to thermonuclear...
...deference to teetotaling Mormon George Romney, his aides stuck strictly to sherbet punch during Michigan's Republican convention. But by convention's end, they could probably have used a real drink. Heckled by opposition within his own party, Romney had lost his temper and slashed out at Democrats in a fashion that was likely to haunt...
...domestic policy, Hughes urges a 35-hour work week, a $1.50-an-hour minimum wage, subsidized housing, and "medical care for all." Most politicians, on advocating such a program, would at least be inclined to temper it with ritual tributes to free enterprise. But Hughes does not bother with that kind of platform piety-or piety of any sort. "I," he announced at his first campaign press conference, "am an agnostic." Murmured a reporter in the audience: "There goes the ball game." In one striking respect, Hughes does resemble his rivals for John Kennedy's old Senate seat, Democrats...
...argued, the nickel deal was very simple, and he could not understand why it was unclear to the Senators. "You can put the whole thing down on the back of an envelope," said Humphrey-Throughout the first day of Humphrey's appearance, Symington held on to his temper. But offstage, Humphrey told a Christian Science Monitor reporter that "they don't dare attack Ike direct so they are attacking me. This is a stab in the back." Now if there is any way to infuriate a politician, it is to accuse him of playing politics-and when...
...approach. Ever since I have been ten years of age I have been on my own, and every undertaking I have tried to do with everything that is in me. I find I cannot change." Although he either denied or could not recall most of the specific instances of temper tantrums, he did admit that he had sometimes been "incensed" by the frustrations...