Word: temperance
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...closest assistants knew until quite recently of departures from the Service's prescribed policies," he told Missouri Democrat Edward V. Long, chairman of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating federal encroachments on citizens' privacy. Cohen promised to right any injustices, then said of his agents: "While we must temper their zeal with controlled judgment, we cannot categorically deprive them of tools and training with legitimate, exemplary uses...
...Madame Coco La Fontaine, proprietress of an overstuffed boîte de nuit, Ethel Merman sports pink, green and violet wigs, and shouts insults at anyone who stops by to untangle the plot. Merman's bad temper is understandable, since she has to oversee a series of stale farcical escapades, the last of which has Garner going to the guillotine accused of Van Dyke's murder...
...swashbuckling ex-bandit who had killed 20 men before he was 30. His mustache bristled, his eyes burned black, and his temper was so violent that his personal physician forbade him to eat meat. He drove his ragged armies to the spectacular victories that finally brought the revolution to power. Then, claiming its leaders were corrupt, he spent the next six years trying to destroy them, finally retired in disgrace. Ever since his death in 1923, Mexicans have argued whether Pancho Villa was the Robin Hood he claimed to be-or just an ambitious hood...
Unfortunately, he too often let his temper get the best of him. Impatient with arguments, sensitive to the superior ways of his fellow revolutionaries, Villa grew more and more adamant in his own views of how the new government should be shaped, more and more convinced that those who disagreed with him were enemies trying to usurp the revolution. He once flew into a rage at the powerful General Alvaro Obregón, ordered him at gunpoint to cosign a rebellious telegram, then had to retire for more than an hour to restrain himself from shooting Obregon...
Film Battle. Unable to throw his enemies out of power, Villa's temper grew worse and his acts more erratic. In 1915, he led his army into open rebellion against the government. He tried to enlist the sympathy of the U.S. press by staging a real battle at the request of a film company. He tried to discredit the regime by raiding the border town of Columbus, N. Mex., and, although he achieved headline notoriety by disappearing with his whole army while General "Black Jack" Pershing led a 12,000-man punitive expedition after him, Obregon did not fall...