Word: temperance
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...specialist at getting information other reporters hadn't. (For a time in the early '50s, he averaged two scoops a week.) And he was also an idealist - who in 1942 had written Prelude to Victory, which he called "not a book so much as an outburst of bad temper ... against anything and anybody who is concentrating but winning this...
...reach the top at G.M., where most of the hierarchs belong to the same Masonic lodge. He often goes to Mass before beginning his twelve-hour working day. In an industry driven by cool, computerized accountants and tough-talking salesmen, Roche is a folksy sort who never shows his temper and whose greatest failing, according to companions and competitors alike, is that "he may be too much of a gentleman." Roche now ranks second at G.M. to Chairman Frederic G. Donner and is the odds-on-choice to succeed him when Donner turns 65 in the fall of 1967. While...
Lacouture's piece on De Gaulle is written with a delicacy that is refreshing in contrast to the mere competence or polemical outrage of the other articles. De Gaulle, according to his longtime observer, is no overbearing dictator in the conventional sense. "Authoritarian by temper, unfit for negotiation, impatient in dispute, he wants to dominate by the highness of his thoughts and depth of his views, not by forcing upon," writes Lacouture...
Papa had a bad temper, says Hotch. When he drank, he sometimes grew quarrelsome and querulous with his fourth wife, "Miss Mary," whom he adored and once described as "my pocket Rubens." He slyly made sport of pestering strangers by extravagantly praising something they wore. He was also a hypochondriac, forever lugging around samples of his urine. He was convinced that he had skin cancer (his own diagnosis), and grew his beard to cover the white scaling on his face...
...Gimo is now 78. Even he complains that his memory is beginning to fail, and he finds it increasingly difficult to keep his temper in front of foreign diplomats. "A man of my age ought to retire," he told the National Assembly recently, "but our lost mainland has not yet been recovered, and our nation has to continue to prosper. I cannot but redouble my efforts to finish our unfinished tasks until...