Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subtleties of a great blade are taxing. No gaze through a glass case can substitute for the experience of holding and turning it under natural light, observing the grain of the steel surface, the contrasts of polish, the relentlessly delicate curves of ridge and back, and the hamon or temper pattern-hard as diamonds and impalpable as blown frost-along its cutting edge...
...party's majority leader since 1961, can be sharp-tongued when he needs to be. But in 15 years of Senate floor leadership - the longest tenure of any floor leader in the history of the upper chamber - he is legendary for almost never having lost his temper. Other majority leaders, like Mansfield's predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, bullied, threatened and arm-twist ed recalcitrant colleagues. The Montanan soothed, persuaded with calm reason and took the quiet...
When he is not throwing temper tantrums, Ilie Nastase can play a mean game of tennis. Last week the rowdy Rumanian stopped complaining about linesmen long enough to trounce Ken Rosewall 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 at the Avis Challenge Cup competition in Hawaii-a $10,000 victory that made him the fourth professional to win more than $1 million on the tennis tour (the others: Arthur Ashe, Rod Lover and Rose-wall). "I never count how much I make, only how much I spend," commented Nastase, who keeps a fancy flat and a Lancia and a Bentley...
Prosecutor Bancroft, 38, a husky, tenacious man, tried the psychiatrist's temper during cross-examination but failed to shake his testimony or to attack his credentials successfully. Oddly, the prosecution did not bring up one bizarre episode in West's career: killing an elephant with an overdose of LSD. West was trying to find out why elephants have periods of madness. Bancroft also tried to no avail to show that West was habitually soft on defendants. West did add one interesting point: after Jack Ruby was convicted for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the psychiatrist was called...
Collier told the proctors they should "temper their advice on Houses and not make freshmen feel that their assignment to a particular House will make or break them," Joseph Blair, a proctor in Grays Hall, said last night...