Word: temperance
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Suddenly, after the Carswell defeat in the Senate, that Nixon disappeared. In his first display of temper since taking office, the President lashed out at the Senators who had vote against his defeated Supreme Court nominee. And that was just the beginning. What followed was a widening of the war, a statement telling students that they could expect to be shot if they participated in unruly campus protests, and, last week, a plea to American voters to give him a mandate to deal with the "thugs" he considers a threat to our society...
Elsewhere in the Ivies, Brown displayed a mighty temper but a less formidable defense as Princeton demolished them, 45-14, to move into a second-place tie with Yale...
...elections. And yet, even as the government felt the threat of increasing secessionist tendencies among Quebec's electorate, the FLQ was tiring of the ballot box as a means of achieving power: the April vote had yielded the PQ only seven out of 108 National Assembly seats, and the temper of the underground group was wearing rather thin...
...seems to be some hope for it. Written in 1948, it starts with a few well chosen and bitter words about Hiroshima and the atom bomb. It soon becomes evident, though, that even if Shaw's sense of outrage grew fierce in his old age, he never learned to temper his sledge hammer blows. The polemical tone of the play, which lectures the audience as if they were mad war mongers with the intelligence of six year olds, is both offensive and unpolished. Thus Fables, which had more promise than the other two works, ends up the biggest disaster...
...crocheting under the tutelage of a convicted murderess. Furthermore, when a fellow Member of Parliament, Ulster's Ivan Cooper, visited Bernadette, he found her surprisingly subdued. "In her political comments, she's a good deal more tolerant than when she went to prison," Cooper observed, "and her temper is much better than it is normally...