Word: temperance
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...Temper. In Aix-en-Provence, France, Joseph Bertrand, 46, angered when his house was awarded to his wife in a divorce suit, burned it down...
...himself T. (for Tuesday) Lobsang Rampa described the operation that at the age of eight opened his "third eye," giving him, in addition to clairvoyant and telepathic powers, the ability to diagnose a person's state of health and humor from his "aura" (a cleaning man in a temper looked like "a figure smothered in blue smoke, shot through with flecks of angry red"). This was a mere overture to a long vaudeville show of astonishment presented in Rampa's account of his Tibetan life, The Third Eye (Doubleday; $3.50). Other attractions included levitation, riding in kites ("horrible...
...with snow to slow the sleds down to almost sane speeds. But World Champion Bobsledder Eugenio Monti, 30, was in no mood for safety. Only the fact that he had drawn a late starting number for the two-man trials helped him hold on to his hair-trigger temper. Earlier sleds swept the run clean, and Eugenio and his brakeman Renzo Alvera slicked down the one-mile groove in the record-breaking time...
...typical display of the Hartack temper took place last spring in Louisville the evening after Bill's Derby mount, Calumet's Gen. Duke, was beaten in the Derby Trial. A Los Angeles turf writer approached the jockey at dinner and asked a polite question about the race. "I didn't come here to answer questions," Hartack snarled. "I came to eat. If you want to ask me questions, see me around the barns tomorrow...
...pupil, scientists may come in any size or shape, but "they are interesting only in science, talk about science all the time, have a mild temper and patience beyond endurance." The poor wretch of the laboratory "doesn't hardly ever have time to fix his self up, he is so busy experimenting. Usually single-if married not many kids, if any. But a real brain. Doesn't hardly ever go to bed." "I believe," said one student, "the typical scientist would stay in his little laboratory most of the time except to eat and go to conventions...