Word: temperance
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...spoke calmly and deliberately, never raising his voice or losing his temper. Ariel Sharon, Israel's embattled Defense Minister, was on the witness stand, testifying before the commission of inquiry that is investigating the circumstances surrounding the Beirut massacre of Sept. 16 to 18. Since the hearings were being held in a lecture hall of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the setting seemed as relaxed as a college seminar. In fact, it was a tension-charged inquiry that could lead, in a few months' time, to the resignation of the tough and ambitious Sharon and perhaps even...
...homosexuals and, possibly, women. Raised to consciousness, these fears are exorcised. It is a quest for identity based on Joseph Conrad's admonition: "In the destructive element immerse. That is the way." The way to what? Quite probably, the way to understand and absorb the dark tenor and temper of the age, the kind of visceral awareness of anarchy that William Butler Yeats had in mind when he wrote, "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned." Mamet's problem in Edmond is that his intuitional reach exceeds his dramatic grasp...
...rich - the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission -that totally runs your organization and your White House!" he shouted. Reagan parried with humor. "I thought this was for Republican candidates." Arnold bored on right through the laughter. "Just a minute, just a minute," stammered the President, whose temper by then had reached critical mass...
...Both were at the Sheraton Hotel on the night of Jan. 3, 1981, serving as plain-clothes bodyguards for police officers visiting the hotel. One of those officers was Lieut. Rodolfo Isidro López Sibrian, 26, known as "Posorito," or "Little Match," for his naming red hair, fiery temper and anti-Communist views...
Overcomig a temper, that unsettled her throughout the first set. Evans used a powerful serve and crisp passing shots to defeat her nationally ranked opponent. The Crimson's top player also took control of the net en route to her come-from-behind...