Word: tantruming
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...settlements in the West Bank or to go along with U.S. plans to continue to provide sophisticated military aid to moderate Arab nations. U.S. officials insist they never expected Shamir to yield on such matters. Their modest hope, said one, is that Shamir, unlike Begin, will not "throw a tantrum" whenever the U.S. tries to strengthen its friendship with Arab nations...
...fling their lines away rather than directing them at the audience or another character. Robert Stattel as the Duke is the worst offender in this regard, often literally spitting out his lines; since the Duke has several long and emotional scenes, the results range from something resembling a temper tantrum to outright melodrama. A similar lack of control hampers the performances of Marianna Owen as Isabella and John Bellucci as Claudio...
...early trauma, he is often emotionally stunted. Michael Groetsch, director of probation for the New Orleans Municipal Court, sees scores of accused wife abusers every week. "There is a very interesting analogy between a male batterer and a two-or three-year-old child," Groetsch says. "His tantrums are very similar to those of a two-year-old. Like a narcissistic child, the batterer bites when he's throwing a tantrum. I have seen many women come in with teeth marks all over their arms and legs...
Some in the Administration are confidently predicting that when the moment of truth arrives, the Soviets will find a way of avoiding a walkout or at least of limiting it to a token temper tantrum, a brief pout before getting back to the bargaining table. Another fashionable view in Washington right now is that regardless of their extreme distaste for the Reagan Administration, the Soviet leaders are pragmatic enough to realize that they need a breakthrough in the arms talks at least as much as the U.S. does, and that they probably stand to get a better deal before November...
...first settler, who was Black) and Chicago's Roosevelt University and finished eighth in his Law School class at Northwestern. The factors that built him his solid Black support are not going to go away. And for Byrne and other party-jumping Democrats, busily throwing a loser's tantrum, their bigoted view of the word race has lost them all chances for winning the mayor's race...