Word: temperance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...picked fights with his colleagues, who conspicuously left committee hearings when his turn came to speak. A female lawmaker recalled that when Joe noticed her fiddling with a bra strap during a caucus meeting, he leaned over and whispered, "You need any help with that?" His fits of temper drove staff members away, but they saw a vulnerable, insecure side as well. "There was this huge fear of failure. His mother fueled that a lot," recalls one. Ethel told Joe he would never be what his father was, that he was not as smart, not as talented. "When he would...
...Those aides lately have been strongly imploring that no questions be asked about the Constitutional Court and the corruption charges. They whisper that the Prime Minister would like to talk about policy, his family, his history, anything else. Thaksin's temper has erupted several times during recent months when journalists have asked him about his case...
...article of bipartisan faith in Washington right up there with a balanced budget. In Beijing, the reformists have created an equivalent consensus around the fact that China's modernization depends on dramatically expanding foreign trade and investment, which requires a good relationship with the West. And that serves to temper the more hawkish instincts of the hard-liners...
...can’t say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Someone actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus rex.” Everett was run out of New York in 1997 when he was charged with child abuse, and last year his temper flared up again during an interleague game against the Mets, when he earned a 10-game suspension for head-butting an umpire. Almost makes you nostalgic for the glory days of Mets-turned-Red Sox pitchers Bret Saberhagen (who sprayed bleach at reporters back in 1993) and David Cone...
That left only one issue: Summers’ temper. Rumors abounded of an explosive temper that had cowed and embarrassed underlings at the World Bank and the Treasury Department. It took a phone call from one of Harvard’s most powerful alums, Robert E. Rubin ’60—Summers’ predecessor as Treasury Secretary and now chair of Citigroup—to defuse the question. Rubin called three search committee members personally, reassuring Houghton, Daniel and Stone that the temper was now a non-issue, that Summers’ years in government had softened...