Word: tantruming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...praise of Cooper. Then, on the second day of hearings, New York City's Association of the Bar, which had announced its opposition to Cooper, produced a string of witnesses who presented an astonishingly different picture of Irving Ben Cooper. "I have seen Judge Cooper screaming in a tantrum on the bench like a baby in a high chair,"testified Jean Cox, an attorney for the Legal Aid Society. On one occasion, she said, the judge had denounced her as "just a crummy little lawyer from the crummy little Legal Aid Society." Former Assistant District Attorney John Bonomi agreed...
...interests of a peaceful solution" of .the Dutch-Indonesian dispute, and possibly in the interests of Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was scheduled to visit Indonesia during his good-will tour (see THE NATION). While news of State's reversal came too late to prevent the Indonesian tantrum, it was in plenty of time to infuriate the Dutch. "I don't understand this," fumed Prime Minister Jan de Quay. Said Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad: "Another illusion went up in smoke. Reality is facing us more and more clearly. The fairy tale of American good will toward...
...Already, however, Brazilians were getting that old familiar feeling-"Here Comes Jânio." In northeastern Maranhāo state, a federal deputy announced the formation of a national front to return Jânio Quadros to control of the nation he deserted five months ago in a tantrum against congressional obstruction. Quadros had been chosen President ten months earlier by 6,000,000 voters with the largest mandate in Brazil's history. When he fled, Brazilians felt let down, and Quadros' political career seemed ended at 44. Is Quadros bent on a comeback...
...been placed by police in Marie's cell claimed that she had planned to hire some Marseille gangsters to rub out her gossipy neighbors-but again the uncertainties of toxicology came to her aid. The experts could not agree, and one became so flustered that he had a tantrum on the witness stand, sat down, crossed his legs, folded his arms, and refused to speak. Thoroughly bewildered, the judge called for a panel of "superexperts," released Marie Besnard on bail, ordered a new trial in "the near future...
...Cock-a-hoop over his cosmonauts, a little miffed perhaps that the rest of the world was not giving him what he regarded as his due, and possibly feeling a little frustrated over the West's stubborn resistance on Berlin. Nikita Khrushchev was in a real rocket-banging tantrum...