Word: temperate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would interrupt dinner guests who monopolized the conversation-especially if their views did not agree with her own. She even upbraided Charles de Gaulle, when the general testily said that the French fleet would like to attack the British as well as the Germans. Nor was Winston spared her temper. Once after a battle over his spendthrift habits, she hurled a dish of spinach at his head. She missed...
...wants to be told how the hearing will go, almost minute by minute, so he knows what he is going to get out of it." Adds another: "Heaven help you if you are unprepared. He has a very sharp temper, and he uses it very effectively." The questioning continued as Kennedy and two aides rode in a Secret Service black limousine (driven by an agent) on the 20-min. trip to the Dirksen Office Building...
...change, from last year, is her relaxed attitude. "I've really calmed down out there," Field says. "I have a tendency to lose my temper, but I've realized I'm never going to get anywhere throwing my stick around...
...wedding day, Rosabella is appalled to discover the ruse, but she marries Tony, who has broken his leg. Lonely and vulnerable, she spends the wedding night with Joe. As she tends Tony, she grows to love him, but pregnancy will out, and in a temper-tossed finale Tony forgives her, presumably forever...
...view of the gentlemen who fashioned this pop quasi-documentary set to music, Eva was spunky, iron-willed, flagrantly corrupt and a canny mistress of horizontal levitation. With few visible qualms, Evita trades on the voguish temper of the age, which holds that however sleazy, venal or decadent a person is, his or her rise to the top confers chic, even upon moral carrion...