Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...funds and insurance companies, have become nearly as disillusioned with common stocks as individual investors. They may ride any rally to the point at which they recover recent stock losses, then sell some of their holdings in order to buy bonds and real estate. Their selling will tend to temper rallies, but any prediction is iffy at best, and heavily dependent on moves by the Administration and Congress to restore health to the ailing economy...
...necessary. When Billy Jack lets his hands and feet fly at some nasty yokel, he feels just terrible afterward. His guilt has to do in great part with his love for Jean Roberts (Delores Taylor), a staunch advocate of nonviolence who takes a dim view of Billy's temper even as she makes good use of his muscle. In Trial, as in its predecessor, the townies are always hassling Jean and her freedom school-a dewy combination of Summerhill and a dude ranch the citizens think is the vanguard of the Red Menace...
...married life came unstrung last year, according to friends, when the stormy temper and uncertain moods of Lady Lucan, the former Veronica Duncan, drove him from the house. Some emotional scenes followed, and the judge in charge of the case made their children wards of the court, although they remained at home with their mother...
...sympathy, and he won't give it me; and all my pride is trampled in the mud; I am nothing but a miserable crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness and a big belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which no one wants and which nearly drives me insane...
That gloomy profile of the nation is limned in the latest TIME Soundings, a quarterly national survey of the mood, temper and outlook of Americans as the country approaches the 1976 presidential election. Soundings consists of a series of political and social indicators that were developed for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., the New York-based public opinion research firm. The indicators are Economic Distress, Social Resentment, Conservatism, Political Activism and, new this quarter, the National Mood. These results were based on telephone interviews in early October with a cross-section of 1,023 Americans of voting age. Similar...