Word: tantruming
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Reversed Roles. "I worried about Mama, but not in certain ways," she says. "I never saw her in a situation she couldn't handle, even if she was having a tantrum or hysterical crying. But when she'd get in a temper, it was frightening, because she'd yell a lot and I'd freeze. Lots of yelling. Now I avoid people who are screaming at all costs. My eyes glaze over when someone begins to yell, and my mind retreats back to someplace else so they can't get through...
Wrestling Match. He was the first Soviet leader to travel widely throughout the world, and foreigners hardly knew what to make of him. His tantrum at a press conference after the collapse of the Paris summit seemed to reveal either a man whose emotions were temporarily out of control or perhaps an actor at the height of his powers. On one memorable occasion in Yugoslavia, he rolled in the dust of a rural roadside in an impromptu wrestling match with Georgy Malenkov. During his 1960 visit to the United Nations, he called ceremoniously on Fidel Castro at his hotel...
...instant wish gratification. He obviously means to have his own way, even if it's at everyone else's and the country's expense, and regardless of how any of us may feel about it. If his demands are not met will he throw a tantrum or hold his breath till his face turns blue...
...group shares his insight, but some will not or cannot benefit by it. A black girl, defiantly defensive, insists in a tantrum that she once tried to get close to her father, failed, and now will just go on "kissing his ass." The film ends with a shot of her head resting on the shoulder of a companion, face turned away from the rest of the group...
With worries mounting about what was happening on Route 9, the normally unflappable General Creighton Abrams, U.S. Commander in Viet Nam, threw a monumental tantrum at his headquarters in Saigon. "You people are telling me what you think I want to know," he stormed at his intelligence officers. "I want to know what is actually happening." Said one source: "He was so mad he was dancing on the table tops...