Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most disappointing to the 2212 spectators who turned out for the contest, he didn't let his hot temper get the best...
...this may be for armchair detectives, it preserves the phantasmagoric mood essential to Hawksmoor's impact. Ackroyd, 36, a versatile English writer whose biography of T.S. Eliot was widely praised two years ago, has a gift for historical pastiche. His 18th century is a battleground where the rational temper of the modern world, championed by Wren, contends with the medieval occultism embraced by Dyer...
Shultz's success in shaping policy is much greater than his prowess in articulating it publicly. Lately he has permitted himself some public flashes of the temper he shows in private, pounding a table angrily in December when a Yugoslav official offered some excuses for terrorism. But for the most part his public utterances are studiedly bland and numbingly repetitious. In Shultzspeak, the invariable progress report on any problem is that "we're working at it." Even his wife Helena has complained, "George, you sound so dull...
...likes me. And I think that she is sort of like me too. She has a temper, you know." Maria giggles. "The flying nun flies off the handle. But she helps me with everything. She wants me to be nice to my father, you know? But I can't do that. He's not the sort of person you talk to. I am scared to get close...
...book, in fact, is not overwhelmingly convincing, but it is in tune with the times, and may help restore some balance in its field. Wilson admits that the case for biological factors in crime was jettisoned in the early 1960s partly because of the shifting temper of the country. It may catch on again now because of a different national mood...