Word: tantruming
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...foreign minister." In practice, that means that he brings his paychecks home to her and she dispenses pocket money to him. She pays all the big bills. If they eat out, it is generally the wife who discreetly picks up the restaurant tab. When she throws a temper tantrum, her husband speaks of "flying saucers" at home. In the Hoa Hao sect, a wronged or thwarted wife has been known to tie her husband's hair to a bedpost while he is sleeping, then wake him up and beat him until her wishes are granted...
...anything I tell him. He won't sit still for a minute, he smashes things, he's mean to his brothers and sisters, and when he wants something and I don't give it to him right away, he throws a temper tantrum." If Mother seeks medical help, the doctor is soon exasperated as the little monster upsets ashtrays, spins the examining stool, snaps the tongue depressors, and tries to grab the guppies in the fish tank. At such moments, says California's Dr. Daniel M. Martin, "it behooves the doctor to suppress that 'urge...
...putting dissidents on reservations, and destroying all concepts of adolescence. He cannot be serious; yet one pokes vainly through Shapiro's overcooked simplifications for a scrap of wit or irony. Finding none, the reader concludes that To Abolish Children is little more than a late-middle-age temper tantrum...
...thing. "Baby Crawl-Along" lives up to her name, scoots across the floor on hands and knees. No sooner does "Tubsy" touch the bath water than she starts splashing. Tubsy is an angel compared with "Li'l Miss Fussy"; she dampens her diapers, then throws a tantrum, crying and kicking until she has been changed. "Baby's Hungry" is more patient; she will go unfed indefinitely. Once the spoon or nursing bottle is inserted between her lips, however, she rolls her eyes and downs her formula with gusto. But, caution: when she sits up after meals, she wets...
...prepared lunch for my active four-year-old son and two-year-old daughter, who was having her usual mealtime tantrum, I could not help thinking of those Catholic priests who were meeting to pursue a new church ruling regarding celibate or married life. If they could share some of our hectic meal ordeals, they would surely want to remain celibate...