Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same old Charlie Chaplin; ten years in Switzerland have changed him a great deal. His outrageous temper is all but gone. His tirades against the U.S. are now infrequent. The headlines he once made for everything from the Great Paternity Suit to Tax Problems to accepting a Kremlin-sponsored "peace prize" (thumb at his nose, fingers pointing west) have vanished, not to be replaced by others. Oxford is about to give him an honorary degree; so is the University of Durham...
...temper tantrums by Jack and Bobby only underline the fact that they are truly spoiled little rich boys who have yet to learn the economic facts of life...
...when she is lying. She has an exquisitely nutty sense of humor. When someone begins to tell her a joke about the papacy, she says: "I'm a good Catholic. I'm no supposed to listen. What is it?" For a Neapolitan, she has a remarkably subdued temper. "I get angry," she says, "once a year...
...Nutcracker. McDonald could scarcely have got more, with one in three of his Steelworkers laid off or working only part time and the rest in no temper to repeat the 116-day strike...
...Henry VIII might have solved such a problem by beheading the critics-a solution the Daily Express lampooned in a sly Giles cartoon (see cut). It is a measure of monarchy's waning power that in modern England a prince's only recourse is to lose his temper...