Word: tantruming
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...guarantee the whites one-third membership in a toothless Senate and an unspecified number of seats in the lower house-but not enough to block legislation or constitutional amendments. Displeased by both plans, Muzorewa threatened to walk out. But sources in his delegation said that the bishop's tantrum was no more than a threat aimed at holding together his divided delegation...
...honored with the rank of Roman consul, only to be banished when he reviles the tribunes of the commoners instead of currying their favor with mock humility and an ostentatious public display of his battle scars. When he turns against Rome and joins its enemies in a temper tantrum of crazed revenge, he is a scalded boy bent on killing the dearest thing he loves...
...happened, and in an instant, there he was again?Peck's bad boy of tennis. After blowing a key shot, John McEnroe hurled his racquet. The offending piece of equipment landed at the feet of McEnroe's surprised opponent, Hie Nastase, the acknowledged prince of the tennis temper tantrum...
...fingers of one hand. The hand belongs to Edward Sorel, a chiaroscuro cartoonist in the merciless tradition of Daumier and Thomas Nast. With a pen dipped in corrosive sublimate, Sorel uncovers the Presidents from Harry Truman as a Keystone Kop to Jimmy Carter in the throes of a scatological tantrum. No one is safe from Sorel: he skewers Arabs and Zionists, harpoons Cardinal Cooke and Billy Graham, lampoons the Jerry Lewis telethon: "Maybe some day science will find a cure for Multiple No-Talent." Sorel's style is best when it reveals the foibles of its subject graphically: Gloria...
Spotty Harvard pressure and a bush league move by Cornell coach Dick Bertrand finally resulted in the iceman's first score. Despite a 4-0 lead, Bertrand proceeded to throw a tantrum and a stick on the ice when Jack Hughes was not called for tripping...