Word: temperance
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...married life came unstrung last year, according to friends, when the stormy temper and uncertain moods of Lady Lucan, the former Veronica Duncan, drove him from the house. Some emotional scenes followed, and the judge in charge of the case made their children wards of the court, although they remained at home with their mother...
...sympathy, and he won't give it me; and all my pride is trampled in the mud; I am nothing but a miserable crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness and a big belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which no one wants and which nearly drives me insane...
That gloomy profile of the nation is limned in the latest TIME Soundings, a quarterly national survey of the mood, temper and outlook of Americans as the country approaches the 1976 presidential election. Soundings consists of a series of political and social indicators that were developed for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., the New York-based public opinion research firm. The indicators are Economic Distress, Social Resentment, Conservatism, Political Activism and, new this quarter, the National Mood. These results were based on telephone interviews in early October with a cross-section of 1,023 Americans of voting age. Similar...
...CORRUPTION: I lose my temper with people who are not honest. I don't like them. That does not mean there is more corruption here than elsewhere. We are going to establish in our civilian sector the same thing that we have in the armed forces, a Committee of Five [who investigate corruption charges]. Even if you do not have absolute proof of the kind you need in [our] courts to convict someone of corruption, if you have enough information you can render a verdict outside the judiciary...
...think it goes far enough. But I believe the temper of the Congress is to build on it and push it further...