Word: temperance
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...indeed much overdue. Buildings have long reflected the people that inhabit them, the times that harbor them and the civilizations that grow with them. It is especially apparent today, when one has only to go to Harlem or Watts or Hough to see how the buildings reflect the temper of the people...
...stallion that he later sold for only $6,000. Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot. The filly herself was more the size of a Shetland pony than a race horse and the only thing remarkable about her was her temper...
WHEN the curtain first went up on the drama of Czechoslovakia, TIME'S cover story (April 5) on Alexander Dubček observed that, more than any other man, he had "planned, pleaded for and nurtured the sweeping changes that promise to alter the temper and quality of Czechoslovak life, and perhaps the nature of Communism in the rest of Eastern Europe as well." As that drama began to climax with a confrontation between Dubček and a phalanx of irritated Russian leaders, TIME'S correspondents concerned themselves last week not only with the central characters...
...school, putting dissidents on reservations, and destroying all concepts of adolescence. He cannot be serious; yet one pokes vainly through Shapiro's overcooked simplifications for a scrap of wit or irony. Finding none, the reader concludes that To Abolish Children is little more than a late-middle-age temper tantrum...
...spite of all Trudeau's popularity, the campaign was marked by considerable bitterness, including an outpouring of hate literature. There were even the expectable innuendoes based on his backing of the homosexual reform bill and his bachelor status. But Trudeau never lost his temper or became flustered, coolly shrugged...