Word: tantruming
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...with a deep moral sense, he is outraged by man's inhumanity to man. The worst tantrum he ever threw was on the day of the Austrian Anschluss. He tried to rehearse, but left the podium after the first minute. He didn't stop raging until he had almost kicked a massive table to pieces, pulled all his scores from their shelves, nearly wrecked his dressing room. Then he sat down and cried...
Perhaps moderating orders had reached Belgrade from Moscow. For if Vishinsky's U.N. tantrum (TIME, Sept. 29) proved anything, it proved that Russia did not want war now, and was trading vituperation for time. What the seizure of the three Americans at Trieste proved was that Russian aggression had made several frontier situations in Europe so hair-trigger that a hotheaded act on either side could cause shooting which might be very hard to stop again...
...scrubwoman, often gives the lie to what they say. But the drama of physical reality that they create finally becomes so exciting that even the narrator is infected. "Despite myself and the progress I have made by realizing the worth of my floor ... I fall upwards into a social tantrum...
...Geneva, Chairman Fiorello H. La Guardia treated his colleagues of the UNRRA council to a tonic tantrum. His chief targets...
Italy's tantrum of outraged national pride over Trieste recalled similar symptoms of hyper-nationalism after the last war. Then, as now, Italians insulted their friends, wallowed in self-pity and exaggerated every setback into a catastrophe. A wise but polysyllabic Italian, Giuseppe Borgese, described the national mood: "The nation, masochism-stricken, exulted in frustration...