Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather than share the air with Walters. Reasoner, who has been ABC'S solo anchor since Howard K. Smith was sidelined to nightly commentaries five months ago, later softened his opposition, probably after ABC promised him more money. "It was my pride reacting," Reasoner said of his original temper tantrum. "My feeling was, 'Please, mother, I'd rather do it myself.' But that was only temporary and irrelevant. The money is the least of my worries. I make more now than I'm worth...
...status in an army hutment, an odd lot indeed. Richie (Peter Evans) is an avowed homosexual. The college-bred Billy (Paul Rudd) may be a latent homosexual, but won't admit it. And Roger is a black who has bridged the racial gap through competence and an equable temper...
...suggest that Kissinger's tough talk on Cuba might be aimed partly at countering domestic critics who charge that he has been too soft on the Soviets in his pursuit of détente. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee late last week, Kissinger tried to temper the stir created by his most recent pronouncements. He said: "There is no urgent situation at this moment that requires a crisis decision. But we want the Cubans and the Soviet Union to understand the consequences of their actions before any irrevocable decisions are made by them...
DIGGINS HAS PROVIDED a lucid and accurate intellectual biography of Eastman, Herberg, Dos Passos and Burnham, as well as a useful picture of the temper of the age in which they lived. If his interpretation of the reasons for their conversions is faulty, his book nonetheless presents a complete picture of the material facts. If Diggins fails, it is because he ignores his own evidence, and because he prefers a neat, all-encompassing solution to a more complex and perhaps less satisfying...
...overtime. During a recently televised game against Michigan, he became so disturbed by some bad passes his guard Jim Wisman made that he grabbed Wisman by his jersey and hauled him off the court. If a referee's call goes against Indiana, Knight sometimes succumbs to his hot temper and starts kicking the nearest chair. Even when he goes fishing, the Scoreboard stays lit. If he casts ten times and catches three fish, he will say good naturedly that the fish...