Word: temperers
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...Olga is the center of my existence," Svetlana often said. She lavished much warmth on the child, but all too often Svetlana's ungovernable temper got in the way of her loving intentions. Wherever mother and daughter lived in the U.S., people remember, Svetlana frequently struck Olga. When the child was five, an acquaintance in Carlsbad, Calif., recalls, "Olga had been playing next door with a friend, and Mrs. Peters was not particularly happy about it for some reason. When she called her home, Olga came running, fell, skinned her knee and cried. I picked her up to comfort...
...Haldeman in the Nixon White House. A lively storyteller who has an easy rapport with his fellow Irishman in the Oval Office, Regan is far less dour than Haldeman, but he may turn out to be as tough. His emotions boil close to the surface, and his explosions of temper keep aides on their toes--and a little cowed...
...choice stand on abortion, but she insisted that the decision must be a woman's, not the state's. When heckled by antiabortion activists, she shot back with wisecracks learned on the streets of New York. Throughout, Ferraro remained courageous, tenacious, womanly; she may have lost her temper now and then but never her sense of humor...
...Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who in an effective, if quirky, nomination speech compared the Senate to the Washington Redskins football team and cast Stevens as a man who had valuable experience playing "backup quarterback." But the elder statesman's plug was not enough. Stevens, known for his combustible temper, lost by three votes, and in a display of characteristic crotchetiness, immediately threatened to renew his challenge to Dole in two years...
...Germans were very aware of American politics," he said, adding that during his heated discussions, he would temper his conservative beliefs in the interest of diplomacy...