Word: temperance
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They showed their temper in threats to "hit the bricks" and "shut down the steel industry tight and let it rot until hell freezes over." Once, Murray brought the house down with an impassioned belaboring of the companies: "I say to them 'Go to hell,' and I mean...
...what has been called the finest army ever fielded by the U.S. Truman's firing of Douglas MacArthur thrust Ridgway up suddenly as supreme commander in Japan. In the waning final year of the occupation, he has proved capable of tact and diplomacy (although given to bursts of temper), and has dutifully left most of the big decision making to Washington...
...Macon, Ga. team in the Sally (South Atlantic) League. Stanky recalls his minor-league experience as an unending series of brawls (35 fist fights) and rows with umpires ("I got tossed out of 15 or 20 games a year"). Stock, Stanky now says, "taught me to control my temper." This may be giving Stock too much credit, but he did teach Stanky that being thrown out of games hurts the team's chances...
Self-discipline in the exercise of political liberties is also needed to keep democracy stable. Latinos are individualists, insistent upon personal as distinct from political liberty. They are men of passion, men of honor. Lord Bryce, writing in 1912, noted in them "a temper which holds every question to be one of honor." Sometimes, in the flurry of upholding honor and individual rights, some of the quieter ground rules of social conduct have a tendency to get lost in the shuffle. A Cuban joke defines democracy as "having a good job and the right to drive on the wrong side...
...before they stopped. Morris further maintained that he did not get a penny, personally, from the tanker deal. But South Dakota's stubborn Republican Senator Karl Mundt wanted to know: "What was your share of [the Morris law firm's] $158,000 in fees?" To keep his temper, Morris counted slowly, "One . . . two . . . three . . ." and then said he did not know. Mundt estimated $30,000. With a put-upon air, Morris did not deny...