Word: temperance
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...Incensed by the escape from a PA prison in Hebron of 17 Hamas and Islamic Jihad detainees the previous day, Arafat reportedly lost his temper during a meeting in his Ramallah office, slapping his security chief Jibril Rajoub. More colorful accounts even had Arafat drawing a gun, prompting both men's bodyguards to do the same. PA insiders dispute reports that Arafat pulled out a firearm, but confirmed that the aging Palestinian leader had indeed slapped Rajoub. PA leaders were hard at work Thursday reconciling...
...have a weakness? Yes, my famous temper. My New Year's resolution was to tone it down. In fact, I understand members of my cabinet are having a bet among themselves as to who will incur my ire first...
...Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney, the Mitfords (Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, Deborah and their brother Tom) grew up in "a sort of upper-class poverty" (which entailed, at its worst, six servants). They referred to their eccentric parents as "Farve" (their father had such a formidable temper that he banned the Duchess of Marlborough from his home because she left a paper handkerchief on a hedge) and "Muv" (their slightly dotty mother considered dinner napkins an extravagance). Nancy, the eldest child, would capture both their peculiar family life and the milieu of the "Bright Young Things"--the flippant...
...recommendations forces you to challenge that assumption. That could get you in trouble, which is the last thing you need in the wake of your spat with everybody’s favorite prima donna, Brother Cornel. When Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 threw his temper tantrum, you got bloodied in the press. Surely you don’t want to give the liberal elite another excuse to go for your jugular, so I can’t blame you if you grit your teeth and rubber stamp the report. That’s what former...
...would eventually work out. "When I began to help him, I got outside of myself for a few minutes, and the worry and despair was gone," says Sincock. He discovered in himself a compassion he never knew was there. Before the 11th, he had been known for his short temper...