Word: temperance
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...Giovanni as a red-wigged Donna Elvira, Schwarzkopf first denounced her seducer with flashing temper, then melted into moving sorrow as she realized what sort of fellow the don was. With sure technique, she hushed her eager admirers in the audience until she finished her big Act II aria. As she ended the song, she cupped her hands before her in supplication and got her reward: thunderous applause and cheers during four curtain calls...
Anarchic Grammar. The work has been trying. At 65, Casey's temper has become frayed. He began the year by drop-kicking a press photographer out of spring training; during the regular season, he raged at the umpires more than usual, erupted from the dugout in a uniform that looked like well-worn pajamas, and even got himself heaved out of a game-something of a record for Stengel as a Yankee manager...
...police club. He has a big, slightly hooked nose and a close-trimmed black mustache, a row of regular, white teeth and a brilliant, easy smile. His eyes are piercing and brown, and he talks quietly, gently, and has never been known to raise his voice or lose his temper. Beneath his apparent softness, there is a streak of rough, tough ruthlessness. Last week in his Cairo office, he talked quietly, but he let the toughness come through...
...American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, a group so constantly harassed that it no longer loses its temper easily, last week uttered a cry of rage. In a bitter telegram to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, it said that some 40 U.S. businessmen have been denied exit visas, and are "held as individual hostages" by the South Korean government until heavy new corporate taxes are paid. Some companies "have been notified of ROK intent to seal offices and impound assets" if they fail to pay "exorbitant sums labeled tax, but not implied by Korean tax laws...
...tunes of torchy temper, sung with a fine ear for theatrical effect, e.g., the long, aching swoop, the insinuating droop, the ecstatic quaver, the lilting bounce, the suggestive growl. Tenor Short accompanies himself on the piano...