Word: temperance
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...less formidable. And what they took for irascibility was often only a pedagogical technique. He was impatient with laziness, carelessness, or discourtesy, and rebuked them unsparingly when occasion demanded. He was strict also with innocent minor disturbances like coughing or late arrival at class. But far from losing his temper over these things, he had himself very well in hand...
Even the fat comfortable merchants of Teheran felt some of the same muted excitement. They knew the old Shah as a cantankerous man with an unpredictable temper, given to seizing land, imposing high taxes, throwing honest but dissenting businessmen into the big prison on the Ghulek Road north of Teheran. The prison was a poor place to live, all too good a place to die. Under Mohammed, the merchants of Teheran hoped, things might be different...
...declared that Bertie should be taught that "one of the principal duties of Princes was to provide for the preservation of perishing frescoes and monuments." So he visited Rome, which had plenty of such objects, "many of them in a suitably perishing condition." They only gave Bertie fits of temper. But in the studio of John Gibson, R.A., "he was much struck by three portraits of a beautiful Italian woman...
...Once an eminent professor, enraged because Morse suggested that he use a second hand lecture chair instead of buying a new one, roared: "I beg your pardon, I have a nasty temper." Morse roared back: "So have I." The professor capitulated...
...Adolf Hitler's own Volkischer Beobach-ter declared that Russia "battles with dogged tenacity . . . surpasses all previous opponents in fighting temper...