Word: temperance
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Murdo Ewen Macdonald remembers his first West of Scotland congregation-on the Isle of Skye-as "very churched people. The acids of the modern temper haven't corroded them much...
...still passionately admired his father, bitterly resented his fellow countrymen's treatment of him. Baudouin began to show a few signs of royal temper, as when he received an antiroyalist minister and left him standing during the audience, or when he snapped at a tutor who was repeating himself: "You said that three days ago." Although his entourage treated him more & more as a King, his father still seemed to regard him as a boy. At lunch, he would admonish Baudouin to take his elbows off the table. One of the rare visitors to Laeken described a day last...
...Cohen, sentenced him to five years in jail plus a $10,000 fine, then commented: "You're not as bad as you have been pictured. Perhaps more of us would be gamblers if we'd been so lucky as you have." That conclusion hotted up the Tennessee temper of crime-busting Senator Estes Kefauver: Cohen should have been given a heavier sentence "instead of a pat on the back." From the Billy Sunday Memorial Tabernacle near Warsaw, Ind. came the view of Evangelist Billy Graham: "I am praying that after Mickey Cohen has paid his debt to society...
...Paso, on her way to Spokane, Mob-land's pin-up moll Virginia Hill, whose Austrian ski-instructor husband Hans Hauser has been ordered to leave the country, turned her temper on some unarmed reporters, slapped one, slugged another with her spike heel, then gave a statement: "The happiest day of my life will be when I leave this damn country." When her plane put down in Denver, she took a swing at the nearest stranger, apologized when she found the man was not another reporter, but merely an investigator from the District Attorney's office who wanted...
...those who threaten us take only a tyrant's lesson from differences among free men and mistake the temper of our people, they can plunge the world into war . . . [But] the issues which might divide our people are far transcended by the things which unite them. If threatened danger becomes war, the aggressor would find at one' stroke arrayed against him the united energies, the united resources, and the united devotion of all the American people...