Word: self-control
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...academic success correlated positively with responsibility, socialization (i.e., participation in teacher-student activities), self-control, achievement under direction, and feminine interests ("passive" interests such as literature rather than "active" interests such as football). The SAT scores, both verbal and mathematical, did not have significant predictive value for Harvard students...
...eliminating Latin from diplomas-a burning issue in Cambridge. When he heard some of his ex-sparring mates on the wire, Presidential Assistant Bundy, preoccupied with such problems as Laos and Cuba, asked tartly: "Are you guys still in business?" Said the newspaper next day: "In a fit of self-control, the Crimson refrained from asking Bundy the same question...
During the telephone interview, Bundy scoffingly asked the CRIMSON: "Are you guys still in business?" In a fit of self-control, the CRIMSON refrained from asking Bundy the same question...
...Self-control was not the Pope's solution. "There are necessary limitations to the freedom of the press," he said. "And these limitations should be strictly determined on the basis of law." Beyond that, the Pope proposed an embargo by offended Catholic readers: "Do not buy, do not believe, do not favor, and do not even mention this perverted press...
...which licks its chops over each new scandal, e.g., last week's story of the couple in Rome, run over and killed while making love on the railroad tracks. Rome's press, while giving the Pope's admonitions good play, implied that he was merely suggesting self-control. "Self-regulation," said Rome's Il Tempo, "is without doubt the best medicine," went on to absolve itself from the Pope's accusations. Most other leading papers followed suit...