Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still has much to celebrate at this season: a recovering economy, a calming of the national temper, the beginnings, at least, of a global detente. Moreover, it is an axiom that, if the good news from Viet Nam is never as good as claimed, the bad news is never as bad as feared. The negotiations may yet be salvaged, but the Administration's severe setback in Paris, the persistent absence of peace, the inability to free the prisoners by Christmas-all these remain bitter blows. They are also reminders that the Viet Nam War seems to have the durability...
...country's politicians, Whitlam sometimes strikes down-to-earth Aussies as being too smooth by half. One of his own party members complains that he is a "distinctly middle-class intellectual with both a prickly personality and a captious turn of mind." He also has a renowned temper. In Parliament he once dumped a glass of water on a member of the Cabinet...
Drained. Burger "has good sense of pace," says one of his colleagues. The Chief knows when to curtail drifting discussion and when to call a temper-cooling coffee break. But there are inevitable undercurrents of tension on the ideologically split court. While one Justice speaks of another as "a great storyteller, quick with very funny stories about cases he's tried," still another grouses that the conferences occasionally get bogged down with "war stories about famous cases I have judged." The occasional jokes that lighten the sessions tend to be a bit lawyerly. "For instance," explains a Justice, "somebody...
...religion and family, all this suggests another famous football coach. In fact, Don Shula has more than once been compared with Vince Lombardi, late mentor of the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins. There are, as it happens, other traits the two men had in common: an incandescent temper and a penchant for chewing out miscreant players, often in front of their confederates. While Shula is every bit as consecrated as Lombardi was to the idea that "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing," he leans harder on quiet attention to detail and less on histrionics...
...interview two weeks ago, Harrison acknowledged that he has reassessed his coaching philosophy over the past year. He said that he had a number of serious personal problems during last season which made it difficult to control his often volatile temper...