Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Raib Avers and eight ragged black and mulatto crewmen set out from Grand Cayman Island to hunt turtles in the southwest Caribbean. Their ship is the Lillias Eden, a once proud schooner now yoked to brand-new twin diesel engines in its converted cargo hold. Avers' legendary temper is even blacker than usual. Though it is late in the turtle season, he needs a good catch to pay for the overhaul of his ship. He rashly refuses to worry about Eden's lack of a chronometer, life jackets, fire extinguishers, or a radio that can send...
President Gerald Ford assured his press conference last week that he always kept his temper, except for "occasional outbursts on the golf course." Nonetheless, he was obviously angry over the callow opposition of some Americans to resettling about 115,000 Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. At a meeting with Republican congressional leaders, the President said that he was "damned mad" and added: "It just burns me up. These great humanitarians -they just want to turn their backs. We didn't do it with the Hungarians. We didn't do it with the Cubans. And damn...
...tennis fans are used to such antics. Ever since the young man with the impish grin, two-fisted backhand and high-octane temper burst into pro tennis three years ago, the keepers of decorum have been alternating between disgust at his behavior and admiration for his play. Rumania's Ilie ("Nasty") Nastase, of course, has for years been notorious for his displays of anger and unsportsmanlike conduct, but James Connors has taken the art of on-court temperament to new heights ? or depths. Given an audience, Connors can seldom resist the temptation to ham. Occasionally he loses control...
...academic. Obviously Washington would gladly settle for a neutralist regime based on the Laotian model as a replacement for Lon Nol, but there is little reason to believe the Khmer Rouge would now accept anything less than full power. There is a chance, of course, that nationalists will temper the ardor of the Communists in the insurgent movement. Perhaps the clever Sihanouk will play a larger role than is now anticipated. The Khmer Rouge, which lacks a strong cadre of leaders, may be forced to rely upon the existing bureaucracy. Moreover, the traditional Cambodian hatred of all things Vietnamese...
...Orleans man who had just lost his job slammed his baby against a wall until it lost consciousness. An Atlanta real estate agent, under severe stress when his commissions dropped drastically, lost his temper and beat his five-year-old daughter so severely she had to be hospitalized. Such incidents suggest that economic strain is an increasingly important factor in child abuse. Says Jerry White, director of protection services for the Georgia human resources department: "It's a consequence of the economic crisis that people do not think about...