Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife, but Bush refused to disavow the written statement. Political analysts suspect that paper was meant to put Dole on the defensive, shift attention away from the Vice President's still foggy Iran-contra role and goad the Kansas Senator into a display of his well-known temper. If so, it was at least partly a success...
...imperial decline. Romantic poets found the gloom and doom of antiquity irresistible. Envisioning an ancient toppled monument in a barren desert, Shelley conceived an epitaph that was both ironic and admonitory: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" In a softer temper, Poe allowed the face of a beautiful woman to transport him back in time "To the glory that was Greece,/ And the grandeur that was Rome...
...Tigers, who played without leading-scorerMessuri--whose temper tantrum lead to a 10 minutemisconduct--for the last four and a half minutesof the game, just didn't have the horses to matchup with the quicker Crimson. That mismatch showedas the game progressed...
...many in the U.S., where 10 billion aspirin are consumed each year, there are also potentially serious side effects. These complications, including gastrointestinal distress, rectal bleeding and peptic ulcers, have caused researchers to temper their excitement over the implications of the American study and warn individuals not to take aspirin frequently except under a doctor's care. Says William Kannel, chief of preventive medicine at Boston University and a former director of the Framingham Study, a long-term heart-research program: "The most rational use would be in high-risk people, rather than having everyone gobble aspirin." Claude Lenfant, director...
...been a lucky career. In Williams' first full season as the Bucs' starter in 1979, he lifted the league's most woeful team to a 10-6 record and a playoff upset over Philadelphia. Still, he was ridiculed as a rocket launcher without temper or touch who "could overthrow the Ayatullah...