Word: temperance
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...change, from last year, is her relaxed attitude. "I've really calmed down out there," Field says. "I have a tendency to lose my temper, but I've realized I'm never going to get anywhere throwing my stick around...
...wedding day, Rosabella is appalled to discover the ruse, but she marries Tony, who has broken his leg. Lonely and vulnerable, she spends the wedding night with Joe. As she tends Tony, she grows to love him, but pregnancy will out, and in a temper-tossed finale Tony forgives her, presumably forever...
...view of the gentlemen who fashioned this pop quasi-documentary set to music, Eva was spunky, iron-willed, flagrantly corrupt and a canny mistress of horizontal levitation. With few visible qualms, Evita trades on the voguish temper of the age, which holds that however sleazy, venal or decadent a person is, his or her rise to the top confers chic, even upon moral carrion...
...would say the most important is the change in the attitudes, the temper of our people. In 1972 everybody was ready to give up and abandon the republic, democracy and the libertarian ideas that we have. We did not adopt the socialist or Communist ideology [but instead preserved] a free enterprise system committed to egalitarian ideals and the elimination of that wide gap between the rich and the poor...
...wall. Despite an easy and cordial manner, he has a strong sense of privacy, always keeping a certain distance. "I pick my friends carefully," he says, "watching them for a long time before I commit. I'm aloof, I know that. I have very few close friends." Connally's temper is sharp, his sense of loyalty demanding. He has barely spoken to Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen Jr., long a close friend, after Bentsen did not testify as a character witness in the milk trial...