Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Duke they paint their faces, wear basketballs on their heads and have bonfires on the campus green. The zillion straight Final Four trips never seems to temper the spirits of the undergrads. More wins, more reason to party. A very simple philosophy...
They'd take up a whole pew, the Weaver girls. "Everybody called us that," says Nan. Five born in seven years. Joanne was Daddy's girl, at least that's what the others claimed. Barb had red hair and matching temper. "Little Nan" was timid and quiet. Then came Sue, then Mary, the baby. They lived a classic Roman Catholic postwar childhood: their father, a bandleader, easygoing and affectionate; his wife a stern but loving homemaker; new outfits, with bonnets, each Easter; the strict, black-and-white doctrine of the Baltimore Catechism. Ice skating at the church rink. Splitting...
...office Hillary presses coffee and bagels on the staff and frequently sends them home to bed and for holidays. White House political consultant Paul Begala says she is the one staff members go to when they have a problem. "I've never seen her lose her temper, and you can tell her anything." She approaches the outlandishly dressed youngsters on the White House staff to find out what the latest is from twentysomething land. One young man in a black, unstructured jacket mistakenly thought she was telling him to dress up when she said to him, "So this...
...lost her temper only when reporters suggested that she was covering for the President. "I don't do spin stuff," she said, "and I'm not distancing anybody from anything." But by the time Larry King came round, she still hadn't heard from her boss. "They kept missing each other," was the official White House explanation. The next day Stephanopoulos began to retreat from the retreat as best he could. Clinton rejected calls for Reno to resign just because "some religious fanatics murdered themselves," and called for investigations at Justice and the Treasury Department. The House Judiciary Committee announced...
...allies argue that the Gomes lawsuit was a desperate response to the one filed by Wynn for breach of contract when Gomes quit to go work for more money as president of Donald Trump's Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. But Wynn does not deny that he has a temper."You know where a temper comes from? Being able to get away with it." He laughs. "I'm a self-made brat. I'm like everybody else: I want to get away with it if I can. I've been indulged...