Word: snappishness
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That strategy could backfire. Arben Xhaferi, who is Macedonia's top Albanian politician and best hope for peaceful reform, is already growing snappish. He hasn't spoken to his Slav colleagues in weeks. And if any Albanian civilians are killed, he told TIME, he will leave the government entirely. That means Macedonian forces face the near impossible task of holding collateral damage to zero...
...producing behaviors such as aggression, competitiveness and belligerence? Men who take testosterone by injection routinely report that in the first days after the shot, when their T counts are especially high, they feel increased confidence, well-being and feistiness--what you might call swagger. They also describe feeling snappish and fidgety...
...alien, especially when it comes to technology. Consider the group of Aristotelian professors who made the following pronouncement to Galileo after he claimed to have discovered Jupiter's moons using a telescope: "[They] are invisible to the naked eye and therefore do not exist." Or the snappish response of Warner Brothers' founder H. M. Warner, who retorted in a 1927 interview, "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" when asked about the feasibility of films with sound...
...illness or fighting with Max over a line, Salam stole the show whenever he got a chance. He had quite a bit of competition from Milt (Geoff Oxnard '99), the womanizing flashy dresser, and Val (Fred Hood '02), the choleric Russian head writer. Hood's convincing Russian accent and snappish attempts to impose order on chaos and Oxnard's goofy, sardonic grin--employed as a rebound from the most outrageous situations, inappropriate comments and stupid outfits--were as funny and memorable as any of Ira's fits. Hanna Stotland '99 made the most of her supporting role as Helen...
...Marshal that always gets his man is snappish in that eye-rolling corny kind of way that makes him both endearing, pitiful and annoying. He has taken under his wing a gumshoe to nurture until he is ready to fly on his own. And of course the hunt to find this escaped good guy, the one who is running from the bad guys, is complicated by the hotshot desk - job agent who was assigned to the case. Oh, and all the people of small-town America have the stupidity required to hold residence in these towns. They are also always...