Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each now blames the other for an argument that started during that conversation. Kohler said he decided to break off the negotiations because Joyce "kept losing her temper" during their discussion. "Maybe she did have a right, but I just thought we'll drop it," Kohler said. "Usually people don't lose their temper when they're trying to negotiate...
FAMILY Business is a film Freudians should see. Between the burglaries, the mother's alcoholism, the father's temper, and the daughter's incestuous desires for her brother, the film is a psychoanalytic feast...
...subject -- Curator McShine has done a good job of setting out, in samples rather than full packages (55 artists are represented), the peculiar mix of political intelligence, sharp irony, antic humor, mythic yearnings, brusque self-doubt and curiously facile pictorial effects that helped define Berlin's cultural temper before Nazism and that came back, with many variations, after...
...shows that it is not involved in illicit attempts to obtain nuclear materials. And an appropriations subcommittee has already voted to suspend a small portion of the aid. Many analysts believe congressional action will end there, since awareness among the lawmakers of the larger geopolitical issues is likely to temper a more draconian response to Pakistan's less than cooperative rejoinder. But at the same time, the hope among U.S. officials is that Pakistan will come to grips with the necessity to calm legitimate fears in Washington that Pakistan's nuclear program might touch off a dangerous regional arms race...
...details of crucial meetings and conversations that took place while the scandal was breaking failed to sway some members of the committee. When Maine Senator George Mitchell, a Democrat, said he found some of the Attorney General's statements "very difficult to accept," Meese came close to losing his temper. "What I have told you is the absolute truth of what happened," he said, "and so if there's any question in your mind, I want to get that settled right now." Mitchell shrugged and retorted, "I just said it's hard to accept...