Word: temperance
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...find out what's going on." Time off hasn't always been fruitful. In 1994, after a rare three-week vacation in China, Steinhardt returned to New York to find that his investment funds had lost 4% of their value while he was gone. He lost his legendary temper, then sat down and did what he has always done: work...
Feeling it insufficient to degrade themselves by means of classroom demonstrations, the so-called Harvard Heritage Society has now turned its infantile temper against those who dare to take a stand against them. Specifically, I refer to the recent letter in reply to Scott M. Singer '98. While Singer offered sage and judicious commentary on the Society's actions, the Society, ostensibly dedicated to the defense of boundless free speech, replied by dismissing Singer's arguments, comparing him to Confederate President Jefferson Davis...
...just let my temper get the better of me," Kohler said. "It was pretty immature...
...lose your temper with a friend...
...Island but not to replace her sainted father. On one hand: "If it hadn't been for him, I thought, I would not have heard Montand sing Les Feuilles Mortes or read Mrs. Dalloway or tasted Brie or drunk any wine beyond sherry." On the other: "Lose one's temper or burst into tears, and he would say, 'I never realized how sick you really are' and leave...