Word: tempering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worse. The militants are still armed with automatic rifles and Uzi submachine guns, and in their four months of prison duty have received intensive weapons training. As one Carter aide put it: "The President is as frustrated as anyone, but he's not going to lose his temper and pull a Mayaguez." Banisadr's view on the military option was similar. He and Ghotbzadeh considered ordering a surprise seizure of the embassy two weeks ago, but ruled it out as being prohibitively risky...
...Northampton, Mass., from zealous Secret Service agents kept local TV newsmen too far from the plane to film Kennedy's arrival, the candidate summoned them to within camera range and then obligingly, and painfully, hauled himself out of his limousine. That kind of difficulty has sometimes frayed his temper, and probably contributed to his erratic campaign performance. Kennedy's aides have had to rewrite his schedules frequently to accommodate his back problems. The Senator has asked them to rule out factory tours shakes he wants to avoid the long hikes on hard floors. When he shakes hands with...
...shave in his final sequence connotes the removal of Cain's permanent scar or Hester Prynne's letter, as if homosexuality were a blight on American society that must be removed through violence. Friedkin claims Cruising "is not an indictment of the homosexual community," yet tacked-on words cannot temper his dangerously powerful images. There are real demons to exorcise--beyond Christopher...
When his team loses, Billy Cleary calmly talks to reporters and friends outside the locker-room door. No yelling, no loss of temper, just cool, contained, quietly boiling frustration...
...fellow inmates and blind devotion to " his President" make him the butt of prison-yard jokes. Pattakos even gets pelted with tomatoes and eggs thrown by other prisoners. He takes solace in religious tracts sent to him by a Greek monk, but he is prone to fits of temper and once, Papathanassiou says, stormed into the governor's office complaining about prison regulations. In reply, Papathanassiou handed him a copy of the rule book, signed by, among others, Stylianos Pattakos...