Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then came the bad temper of my roommate, as brisk and fast as the winter cold that swept up against the windows of our second-floor flat from the Place Contrescarpe twenty meters away. My roommate was often angry at me, and there were a lot of things he did that made me angry too, and I suppose the problem wouldn't have been as bad if we hadn't both been morning drinkers but then Paris is a morning drinker's town and we felt in Paris in those days that wine was a good thing, it made...
...TMers, like the revolutionaries you recently featured, are middle-class kids who are having difficulty with the real world. Upon discovering in the '60s that the ghetto and the war would not be cleaned up at their will, the TMers fled into "cosmic consciousness," and the revolutionaries threw temper tantrums...
...possesses a grandeur of vision that is quite staggering." His daughter Teresa, 15, thinks he is "just like a good friend." At first meeting, Tom Laughlin's glittering blue eyes and ready grin make him seem the soul of affability. But beware. The smallest infraction can trip a temper that has become as infamous as Mussolini's. Tom's face grows scarlet, and his voice sounds like the Devil's in The Exorcist. "It's an awesome, frightening experience," says a colleague. At 44, happy-faced Tom may be Hollywood's most successful maverick...
...Hawks could only be used defensively to protect Amman and other cities, and could not be moved forward to support an armored offensive against Israel. Upset by this stipulation, Hussein briefly balked at the deal, but then finally agreed to the U.S. terms. In fact, the King's "temper tantrum," as Washington officials described it, may have stemmed less from anger over the U.S.-imposed restrictions than embarrassment over how they might be read elsewhere in the Arab world...
Another man's temper might freeze...