Word: temperate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vainly, Jimmy tried to find an issue -any issue-to hang his campaign on. He called Yorty a stooge of Democrat Jesse ("Big Daddy") Unruh, the controversial California assembly speaker. He attacked Yorty's membership in a segregated private club, endlessly criticized Yorty for having a bad temper...
...never wanted to be a fighter," he says. "I wanted to be a baseball player. This is a funny business. The guy you're hitting hasn't done anything to you, but you have to hit him anyway." Three years ago, Griffith lost his temper in the ring-when Benny Paret noted Emile's tight pants and his singsong Virgin Islands speech and questioned his masculinity. Paret died of brain injuries in that fight, and Griffith has brooded ever since over the massacre. "I try to think it was fate," he says. "I try real hard...
Died. Vincent Claude Giblin, 67, onetime Florida mouthpiece for Al Capone, who later served nine tempestuous years as a suddenly crusading Dade County circuit judge, fighting quickie divorces and getting the residence law changed from 90 days to six months, all the while venting his terrible temper ("I'd like to boot her in the fanny!" "You're a pygmy on stilts!") to such an extent that he was finally forced to retire in 1959; of cancer; in Miami...
Even though he knew it was a war game, Hurst nearly lost his temper. "Frankly," he said with sincere asperity, "it's tried our patience. The fundamental problem with the ambassador has been a lack of mutual understanding. He doesn't understand the military problem...
...flood of gossipy and sometimes penetrating anecdotes. Here is tough-minded Amy Lowell, smoking the cigars that shocked Boston in the early 1920s. As a teenager, Amy wrote in her diary the frank confession, "I am fat, ugly, inconspicuous and dull: to say nothing of a very bad temper." As an adult, she intermittently feared revolution and would declaim at dinner...