Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mourning had spent this extra-long off-season toting around the painful memory of his temper tantrum with Larry Johnson in Game 4 of his 1998 series with the Knicks. After the scuffle, Riley reportedly told his franchise player, "You know, you just cost us the season...
...course. When he won his green jacket in '97--crushing the course and the competition with a 12-stroke margin of victory--he set off a golf boomlet. But this year Woods comes careering through the gates with dented fenders and wheels coming off. Tiger's been losing his temper and his putting stroke. He shed his agent, and he bagged his caddy, the cuddly Fluff Cowan. He does have one Tour win this season and a number of high finishes. By human standards, he's playing well...
...Prime Minister very rarely grins. He is better known for a brooding scowl and outbursts of temper. But on March 6 he was ebullient as he presided over his daughter's wedding. His smile was broadcast over a huge video screen to 5,000 guests at tables spread around his house in the Tiger's Den. Hun Sen was doubly happy, he said in his speech, not only because of his daughter's marriage but also because that very day his troops had arrested Ta Mok, the Khmer Rouge leader also known as "the Butcher," the last of the rebel...
From his earliest writings on Bismarck and Metternich to the final chapter of this final volume of his 3,769-page trilogy of memoirs, Kissinger has remained true to his realist tilt. "The United States," he concludes, "must temper its missionary spirit with a concept of the national interest and rely on its head as well as its heart in defining its duty to the world...
After all the upheaval, things appear to be running smoothly at the new center. The carevigers can now focus on art projects and toddler temper tantrums now that the negotiations, neighborhood protests and moving day chaos recede into the past...