Word: temperance
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...Senate committee may have misjudged the temper of unorganized U.S. citizens. A recent Gallup poll reported that 53% favor a labor draft; only 39% favor keeping voluntary methods: 8% are uncertain...
Denunciations & Epiphanies. Other aspects of Joyce's intense life which are more extensively and dramatically reported in the first draft are his wild hero worship of Ibsen ("Ibsen has the temper of an archangel"), his fierce denunciations of things Irish ("I don't think the Irish peasant represents a very admirable type of culture"), the "plague of Catholicism," and the Jesuits ("He spurned before him the stale maxims of the Jesuits and . . . swore an oath that they should never establish over him an ascendancy...
When Mr. & Mrs. Q had their teeth out, Mr. Q reacted with fits of bad temper for several days - he could no longer use his bad teeth as a means of keeping up with his aching, complaining family. But when he got a good job, his vomiting virtually stopped...
...Peace. His large hands firm on the podium, his breath turning to vapor in the raw winter wind, Franklin Roosevelt then delivered his shortest inaugural speech (573 words). It would probably never be considered a great speech, but it indicated the President's mood and temper. There was no reference to domestic affairs, nothing but a passing remark on the war. The President's thoughts that day were on the kind of world that will follow the peace...
Unlike the human variety, whose shrill voice it shares, the shrew's bad temper is the result of a too good digestion: So rapid are its metabolic processes that a shrew will starve to death in a matter of hours if it does not keep eating. If two shrews are caged together overnight, only the stronger will be found in the morning...