Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that promised to keep i) Negroes down and 2 ) the price of cotton up. He punctuated his Senate speeches with "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away (or. if it was not there, at the Senate carpet), often rose to his feet in the Senate in a fit of temper, hacked petulantly on the arm of his chair with a penknife if he could not get the presiding officer's attention. He defeated Johnston in Johnston's first try for the Senate, died in 1944 before he could finish his lame-duck term...
NINE out of ten of our readers get TIME in the mail, but reader No. 10 picks it up at the newsstand. Our newsstand sales naturally vary with the temper of the news, as well as the seasons. Some complicated events draw readers to us, who want to have it all spelled out in one comprehensive story...
...citizenship haunted Soriano last year during a bitter battle with rival Manila Capitalist Eugenio Lopez over the management of Philippine Air Lines, which Soriano organized in 1941. Attacked as a foreigner guilty of monopolistic profiteering, Soriano lost his temper during a Senate hearing on his management of P.A.L. and incautiously snapped out: "A thief thinks everyone else is a thief." The Senate committee issued a report imply ing that some of Soriano's other enter prises had been overcharging P.A.L. for their services - whereupon Soriano gave up operating the airline. But his with drawal has not kept...
...other two events are the "Makhma " (toothless rogue goes mad), in which the elephant must navigate through an obstacle course without losing his driver or his temper, and the " Dor" (flag race...
...jacketed his whims and quelled his temper. When he walks absentmindedly in the garden, she runs after him with a forgotten topcoat. Loyally, she says she is the only member of the family who thinks Charlie is funny. She talks very little; he never stops. Her fondness for him comes close to worship; she has a closet full of Balenciagas, but she often dresses severely, perhaps to appear nearer her husband's age. Around the house, she wears slacks and sweaters, her hair rubber-banded in a ponytail. Terribly shy, she hates to leave the grounds. Oona...