Word: temperance
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What wears purple Bermuda shorts, walks like a man, hits like a man, and occasionally loses its temper like a man? A lady golf...
Though markedly willing to defend Russia internationally, she is an anti-Communist at home; it was at her insistence in 1959 that the government finally voted to dissolve the legally elected Communist government that had ruled Kerala state for 27 months. Her temper and her use of Nehru's magical name sometimes get her into trouble. On the hustings during by-election campaigns last summer, she threw temper tantrums when critical crowds heckled her, threatened on one occasion to report the "barbarians" to Daddy...
...cutting precision and he can outroar Times Square traffic, though he lacks the liquid melody that Gielgud supplies as the voice of Hamlet's father's unseen ghost. His hands punctuate the speeches with percussive rhythm and instinctive grace. He is virile, yet mannerly, as sweet of temper as he is quick to anger, and his wary eyes dart from foe to friend with the swiftness of thought...
Known to his friends as "Poju" [boy], a reference to his youthful appearance, Tuomioja is respected for his even temper, intelligence and ability to listen. He will need all these gifts and more. The Turkish Cypriots and their mother country insist that Cyprus be partitioned or changed into a cantonal federation to give each national group its own domain. Greece refuses even to discuss partition, and will demand first of all a new constitution free of the hampering minority rights for Turkish Cypriots embedded in the 1960 document. Mediator Tuomioja hopes to complete his mission in the specified three-month...
...other principals, John Ross as the Younger Mortimer and Paul Schmidt as Gaveston, maintain the quality of acting. Ross, especially, uses his voice to advantage and suggests the energy and temper of a Hot-spur in his court and battle scenes. Gaveston, Edward's favorite, begins slowly, but comes to life in his dialogues with Edward and in his dealings with the disapproving nobility. Like the other principals, he depends on more than vocal pitch to show his character, and punctuates his speeches skillfully with breaths and stops...