Word: petulante
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When the Japanese set up the independent kingdom of Laos on the eve of their departure in 1945, an autocratic and petulant prince named Phetsarath decided he was tired of his viceregal yellow umbrella, deposed his uncle King Sisavang Vong, and named himself head of a short-lived Laotian republic...
After looking at the Marilyns and the Ginas, I, a maturing but durable female plodding between house chores, taking the kids to school, pushing the market cart and comforting a petulant husband, etc., wonder just what these gilded drabs of stage and screen have.
Safari (Warwick; Columbia) had the interesting idea of shooting 30,000 feet of film in Kenya and then hiring a writer to think up a plot. What results is an African western with ferocious Mau Mau taking the place of rampaging Sioux and a biff-bang ending that has Victor...
Without preamble, the three-piece band cuts loose. In the spotlight, the lanky singer flails furious rhythms on his guitar, every now and then breaking a string. In a pivoting stance, his hips swing sensuously from side to side and his entire body takes on a frantic quiver, as if...
Unfortunately for budgetmakers, the Federal Government was not constructed to make economic sense. Until 1921, individual executive departments went to Congress for funds. Time and again, petulant Congresses tried to hobble the President's powers by specifying right down to the last file clerk how the money should be...