Word: temperers
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...scene was thoroughly familiar. The stern elder, graying hair neatly cropped and parted, lectures on the global responsibilities of a world power. The skeptical younger man, thick hair curling over ears, demands to know why American boys must be sent off to die in vain. Each loses his temper and falls to impugning the integrity of the other...
...mind. A few days later, the journalists were called back to Havana. This time Cuba's mercurial leader was in a more obliging mood, allowing Adams to photograph him during a duck hunt (he bagged 76) at his country retreat outside Havana. "I heard you had a nasty temper," Castro said to the photographer at dinner later. "Why haven't I seen it?" Replied Adams: "Because now I've got the pictures." -By Guy D. Garcia
Shultz, who has shown flashes of temper in recent months, listened with increasing impatience as Illinois Democrat Sidney Yates joined the assault. He read aloud part of a New York Times story reporting that a former high military official in El Salvador had named Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing candidate for President in the March 25 election, as a leading figure in the death squads that have been murdering civilians. "How many killers have been brought to trial?" Yates asked. Shultz could not cite one, but argued that the murders had decreased in number. If death-squad activity...
...film noir ever made, and the new picture retains the clockwork heart of the 1947 Robert Mitchum movie: a gangster hires an investigator to find the woman who has run away from him; when hunter and hunted meet and fall in love, the hood suffers a criminal loss of temper. But it has misplaced the suffering romantic soul of its model, which ex pressed itself through narration and dialogue that recollected tacky things past in tough, cynically charged metaphors and through images as shadowed as an ambiguous memory. It was all rather as if Philip Marlowe had decided to stake...
...concerned, Feldstein holds his fire in public, but privately he can be condescending-and worse-toward the Treasury Secretary. Aides say that Feldstein speaks of Regan as a slow, recalcitrant student who must be patiently tutored and humored. He does an imitation of how the Treasury Secretary loses his temper, pounds on the table and utters a stream of expletives...