Word: petulante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tyranny & Greed. The reasons are not hard to find. Once they got into power, Africa's heroic independence leaders let their nations down. To the growing disgust of the populations and military alike, the new regimes began restricting political freedoms instead of broadening them, bleeding their nations instead of...
Lisa Kelley, who played Miranda, appears to be the twin of Lynn Milgrim, only a little less petulant. She was perfect. John Ross played Ferdinand with almost equal grace, mixing it, correctly I think, with the unsteadiness of a very young man who thinks he has just become king.
Sir: Your Essay is one of the most commendable I have read in TIME. It does justice to the department by destroying false illusions created by often unwarranted, petulant protests.
Some of these are well-aimed jabs, others petulant protests. Almost all are born of the frustrations inevitable to a nation that has undertaken a role of world leadership unprecedented in human history. State's performance must be measured against that role in all its immensity and complexity, at...
The industrial revolution was born in 18th century England, and British working attitudes hardly seem to have changed since. Nowadays petulant, cosseted and truculent, British labor will down tools at the merest hint of any slight or insult. It will jealously defend a host of obsolete prerogatives and work practices...