Word: temperance
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...when she is lying. She has an exquisitely nutty sense of humor. When someone begins to tell her a joke about the papacy, she says: "I'm a good Catholic. I'm no supposed to listen. What is it?" For a Neapolitan, she has a remarkably subdued temper. "I get angry," she says, "once a year...
...Nutcracker. McDonald could scarcely have got more, with one in three of his Steelworkers laid off or working only part time and the rest in no temper to repeat the 116-day strike...
...four-city concert tour. Soprano Maria Callas, 38, was guilty of not one prima donnybrook, seemed to be newly tranquilized. Though an eye inflammation bedded her down for a day in a Bonn hospital, she gamely went on with the show the next evening, restrained her storied temper even when flashbulbs popped during performances. Cooed her concert agent: "Maria has changed completely. She is a charming, amiable, friendly woman...
...Henry VIII might have solved such a problem by beheading the critics-a solution the Daily Express lampooned in a sly Giles cartoon (see cut). It is a measure of monarchy's waning power that in modern England a prince's only recourse is to lose his temper...
...doing a slow burn while Pentagon leaders under Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy refused to use money voted by Congress for specific projects. Examples: construction of a Navy supercarrier in 1949; ordering additional Air Force B-525 in 1961. Last week Uncle Carl finally lost his temper over the issue of how much control Congress should have over the executive branch in determining policy. "It is eminently clear," he wrote in a stinging committee report, "that the role of the Congress in determining national policy, defense or otherwise, has deteriorated over the years." At issue...