Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frisoli's appointment is bitterly opposed by reform-minded parents and most of the city's blacks. They fear that his conservative attitude toward curricular and administrative reform, his lack of sympathy and diplomacy in racial issues, and his quick temper will stifle any progressive movement in Cambridge schools for years to come. There is no legal limit to the length of the Superintendent's term...
...spreading effects of the General Motors strike were putting Ohioans out of work, Gilligan pointed out that Cloud once voted against paying unemployment benefits to workers idled by a strike at another company. Gilligan is a reddish-haired, booming-voiced Irish American with a crushing handshake and a fiery temper that sometimes gets him into political trouble...
Suddenly, after the Carswell defeat in the Senate, that Nixon disappeared. In his first display of temper since taking office, the President lashed out at the Senators who had vote against his defeated Supreme Court nominee. And that was just the beginning. What followed was a widening of the war, a statement telling students that they could expect to be shot if they participated in unruly campus protests, and, last week, a plea to American voters to give him a mandate to deal with the "thugs" he considers a threat to our society...
Elsewhere in the Ivies, Brown displayed a mighty temper but a less formidable defense as Princeton demolished them, 45-14, to move into a second-place tie with Yale...
...elections. And yet, even as the government felt the threat of increasing secessionist tendencies among Quebec's electorate, the FLQ was tiring of the ballot box as a means of achieving power: the April vote had yielded the PQ only seven out of 108 National Assembly seats, and the temper of the underground group was wearing rather thin...