Word: temperance
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...foreign minister." In practice, that means that he brings his paychecks home to her and she dispenses pocket money to him. She pays all the big bills. If they eat out, it is generally the wife who discreetly picks up the restaurant tab. When she throws a temper tantrum, her husband speaks of "flying saucers" at home. In the Hoa Hao sect, a wronged or thwarted wife has been known to tie her husband's hair to a bedpost while he is sleeping, then wake him up and beat him until her wishes are granted...
...voluntary, conscious achievement with involuntary, passive achievement. At the same time, women as sexual objects are the butt of endless jokes; getting pregnant is getting knocked up. One of the most ingenious of Their numberless stereotypes is the belief that women can be salvaged from piety, ambition, bad temper, nervousness, sadness, fear, worry, pedantry, distressing political beliefs, hysteria, pretentiousness or aggression by a good session...
...bitter quarrels over policy, the symbolic leader of the hard-line faction last week quit the party. She is Madame Jeannette Thorez-Vermeersch, the 58-year-old widow of the party's longtime leader, Maurice Thorez, sometimes known in party circles as "the Hag" because of her terrible temper. At the same time, the party, which is led by Secretary General Waldeck Rochet, who in recent years has become a moderate, both reaffirmed its censure of Soviet action in Czechoslovakia and asserted its new-found critical attitude toward Mos cow. Wrote L'Humanite, the French Communist newspaper...
...play a match and then go home. We always have plenty of beer on hand right after the game, and we really look forward to drinking and joking with someone who's been trying to knock the stuffing out of us all morning." The "rugger spirit" also helps to temper what is potentially an extremely rough game...
Lindsay has remarkable powers of survival, and he may recover from this crisis too. But for the present, he seems to have isolated himself and to have misjudged the temper of the unions. Ignoring police warnings of risk, the mayor persisted in filling a speaking engagement in Brooklyn only to be routed by a hostile audience stacked with striking teachers and angry parents. The city's Central Labor Council threw its full support behind the teachers, poured 40,000 people into a demonstration at City Hall. The mayor tried to take out his frustrations in tennis, explaining...