Word: sulks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might deal with my low-level migraine attacks by taking an herb called feverfew and by giving up coffee, I was willing to try. The feverfew worked--it dilates blood vessels--but the coffee thing didn't. As Weil had warned it might, my head went into a mutinous sulk until, after about 10 days, I made a pot of coffee and got back to work...
...returns to this wound in chapter after beautifully written chapter, across the decades. Men in his plots are isolated from women; wives die in childbirth or simply pack up and move out; lovers pine or sulk offstage. Blacks and whites are of course isolated from one another, even when bound by love and blood kinship. Sons and fathers cherish obscure bitternes, then meet after years of silence and fail to reconcile. Acts of love are intense but always precarious and often deadly...
...care legislation. Never mind that the reports were accurate and that Senate majority leader George Mitchell shared the President's frustration. Clinton recognizes that Moynihan's Finance Committee now represents the best hope for crafting a compromise, and the President can't afford to have the chairman in a sulk...