Word: temperance
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Meanwhile the temper of the ultra-nationalist Army officers at the Campo Mayo barracks was rising. Word had spread that they recently met and decided to force out Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, Vice President, Minister of War, Secretary of Labor and Welfare...
...features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy. By the time Janie's parents get home, along with the town police and a batch of MPs, there is precious little home to get to. Janie promptly sweetens everybody's temper with a strong plea for letting youth, inexperience and lonely soldiers do as much for every U.S. home...
...Smith, galumphing off to the Senate chamber, liked to say that he was "going over to the Cave of the Winds." During his 35 years in the Senate, he himself could summon up as hot a sirocco as any that scorched the Ship of State. A fit of temper would get him on his feet, and if he could not get the Speaker's attention, he would hack petulantly away on the arm of his chair with a penknife. The old man (80) has a somewhat high-pitched voice, corkscrewing oddly out of his mastiff jowls; his stature...
...when he wishes to be conservative-as La Toilette (see cut), a serene, informally classic figure piece painted in 1905. Picasso's endless experimentalism was received as variously as it is everywhere. And the Mexican professionals who spoke out about the show were anything but cordial in their temper...
...worked for three weeks with no more than a few hours sleep a night (even the stenographic staff worked three shifts). But the U.S. Treasury's Harry White outdid the rest. With no more than three or four hours sleep a night, he continued to the end with temper unfrayed and head clear, keeping facts and logic marshaled impressively and informing the press ably and regularly...