Word: temperers
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What we know: Hermione is a girl genius with a hot temper. And Ron? Well, Ron's Ron. But after her fling with Viktor, and Ron's with Lavender Brown (in Prince), they get pretty cuddly...
...sure, there were times when Lincoln lost his temper, but then he would promptly follow up with a kind gesture. "I was a little cross," he wrote one of his generals, "I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up." By such gestures, repeated again and again, he repaired injured feelings that might have escalated into lasting animosity...
...epoch of Mommy and Daddy Dearest, this memoir is anomalous: a daughter extravagantly admires her father. Nancy Sinatra is aware of Frank's liabilities--the mercurial temper, the sullen withdrawals, the ring-a-ding-ding philosophy. But as she shows, much of the gossip is myth. The subject admits that if he had been quite the satyr of legend, "I'd be speaking to you today from a jar in the Harvard Medical School." Instead, he speaks through a remarkable series of interviews ("It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone...
...taking place now in the Soviet Union." Reform and democratization are not in the traditional lexicon of Kremlin propaganda. The Soviets even discussed internal opposition to Gorbachev's reforms, implicitly suggesting that Soviet society is open to dissent. Questioned about dissidents inside the Soviet Union, the Soviets held their temper and made conciliatory remarks...
...department chairs is not monolithic in its prescription for the future of the FAS-Summers relationship, as not all professors share the discontent of the majority of the Faculty with Summers’ leadership. And some professors say that since the March vote, Summers has already begun to temper his aggressive, hands-on approach to FAS management...