Word: temperately
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What had propelled an influential Cabinet Minister into mindless crime may have been a hot temper and a weakness for strong drink. The night before the killing, Tekere allegedly had been partying with some ex-guerrillas near Stamford Farm. Somehow they got into an argument with the farm's caretakers, a group of black soldiers who had served in the white-officered Rhodesian African Rifles before independence. Tekere and his cronies returned with their guns the next day, evidently intending to teach the R.A.R. men a lesson. Apparently, Farm Manager Adams was shot to death while trying to call...
...President. I continue to serve the President, and I will support him all the way. I have a commitment to the President. I don't make such commitments lightly, and I intend to keep it." When reporters later questioned the firmness of his position, Muskie's famed temper flared: "If you will just listen to my words, it will still all those questions I see quivering on your lips...
KUBRICK'S FAVORITE THEME of man seeking his own death weaves its way subtly through this nasty plot. Jack Torrance is a man who has always allowed his drinking and his temper to overwhelm his reason, a man who sets his own roadblocks and then tries to run them in a battered Volkswagen. He stands as a crazy metaphor for the world in Kubrick's eyes: the rational progress we make always seems to be a step behind the torture we inflict on the earth and the nuclear apocalypse we plan for. In the end, we will be limping after...
...necessary job: moving Brzezinski back into the shadows a bit. Mondale and a number of White House staffers believed that the National Security Adviser was hurting Carter by acting so flamboyantly. Muskie, they felt, could handle Brzezinski: he was well known for his self-confidence and his hair-trigger temper...
...Muskie trait could obstruct a bipartisan policy: his famed, explosive temper, which resembles the thunderous Mandalay dawn. His face reddens, his finger wags, he appears to swell even larger than his imposing 6 ft. 4 in., and then he erupts. But his fellow Senators, even those who have been the target of his wrath, think his temper is manageable. A pinstriped smoothie he may never be, but, says Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson, "He doesn't become irrational. He's not going to dump a bomb on the Soviet Union and then say: 'Let's negotiate...