Word: temperance
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Kistiakowsky, who seems no older than 55, is a vigorous man known for his fiery Russian temper, his large part in the Manhattan Project, and his still current enjoyment of skiing and sailing. His office has a mantelpiece covered with Presidential medals and other mementees which he will talk about unabashedly. His friends say that a characteristic storminess follows Kisty wherever he goes, no matter what he does. In the lab, he's known as the victim of many accidental explosions; socially, Kisty has married three times, with his first two marriages ending in divorce...
Cavett sometimes seems to be in the same state of unresolved dialogue with himself. He has been known to let his temper flare over a staff member's goof, despite his own wild disorganization and vagueness about money matters. He says he is apolitical and generally avoids taking firm positions on the air; yet once, faced with a guest who defended U.S. policies in Viet Nam, he ignored the rest of his guests and argued against the war. In his most publicized flap, he succumbed to pressure from ABC and the White House and put an SST proponent...
...Rabbit. That last charge embarrassed even Dole. Still, under Dole's approving eye, Nofziger continues to zero in on such Democratic weak points as Muskie's temper tantrums and Hubert Humphrey's vice presidential stance on the war. In a recent "analytical piece" on opposition candidates, for example, Monday damned Humphrey for being "as wrapped up in the blunders and errors of the Viet Nam War in the '60s as Br'er Rabbit was in the Tar-Baby...
...book, Black Power. It reads in part: "Make no mistake... they are going to come at you with words about democracy; you are going to be pinned to the wall and warned about decency... in short, a barrage of concentrated arguments will be hurled at you to temper the pace and drive of your movement...
...heard, the power to expose the very forces that had created his public image and protected his life while simultaneously continuing to oppress the people he was credited with leading and poor people every-where. Thus, King was faced with a choice. He could obey Hoover's directive and "temper the pace and drive of your movement," or he could go back on the point and try again to incarnate his dream...