Word: tantruming
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...After suffering chest pains during a tantrum, a female post-office clerk, 68, was admitted for treatment. In the ward, she grew excited over trivialities. After nine days, when the doctor approached, she became restless. Asked how she felt, she tried to answer, and died on the spot...
...scene: a small circular stage in the basement of Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital. The cast: a group of inmates. Under white lights suggesting harsh reality, 19-year-old Susan thrashes about in a temper tantrum. She once used these tantrums to win attention from her widowed mother or her uncle. Now, as the stage lighting turns slowly to green, another inmate enters in the role of her father's ghost. The two decide to go away together, and the lights are blacked out to indicate the passage of time...
...repeated attacks of vomiting; reflexes like the knee-jerk were dulled or lacking; her hands and feet were blue and cold; she perspired so heavily that her bedclothes had to be changed soon after she fell asleep; her blood pressure skyrocketed and plummeted inexplicably; when she had a temper tantrum, which was often, she broke out in red blotches. But her strangest symptom sounded like something out of a fairy tale: no matter how hard she cried, there were no tears...
Robert Casper's sketch of a prissy, tantrum-throwing spoiler and Robert Flether's portrait of a stuffy Englishman are also twisted to caricature...
Roland unscrewed his face from the brink of a tantrum and flashed a truly Continental smile. "Come," he told me. "I will tell you more. Will that man take my picture?" He turned to the photographer. "You can use the bright light that goes BOOM...