Word: tempering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tower, 57, rose from obscurity as a political science professor to win the Sen ate seat vacated in 1961 when Lyndon Johnson became Vice President. He is known in the Senate for his acerbic wit, keen mind and temper- and his ardent advocacy of military spending...
Some in the Administration are confidently predicting that when the moment of truth arrives, the Soviets will find a way of avoiding a walkout or at least of limiting it to a token temper tantrum, a brief pout before getting back to the bargaining table. Another fashionable view in Washington right now is that regardless of their extreme distaste for the Reagan Administration, the Soviet leaders are pragmatic enough to realize that they need a breakthrough in the arms talks at least as much as the U.S. does, and that they probably stand to get a better deal before November...
West German officials tried last week to temper their earlier statements on the walk-in-the-woods package. While Kohl vacationed in Austria, a government spokesman emphasized that the Chancellor and the U.S. were "in complete agreement that NATO'S decision would have to be followed and that, failing a solution in Geneva, both missile systems would have to be deployed." After visiting Kohl in Austria, Genscher appeared on television to say that "the question of the weapons mix has played a greater role in the past few days than it in truth deserves." The Foreign Minister explained that...
Opel today gives visitors and colleagues a sense of self-containment, but he admits to having had a wicked temper. Once when he could not get a flat tire off his Chrysler because he was turning a lug the wrong way, he became so enraged that he bashed in the side of the car. "I don't get angry the way I used to," Opel says. But the old intensity, just barely noticeable beneath the perfect manners, can still be useful. "People know that I mean what I say and that I don't suffer fools," he says...
...lost my temper and did something that I regret Repetto said during the interview earlier this month adding I didn't wait to get all the facts...