Word: tempering
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...soon as they hear the morning news. Mentally or physically in exile, they have opted out of the sullen landmass they call "Howard's Australia." Yet in moments of fear, clarity and decision, Australians have come to know in their bones the country's 25th Prime Minister. His voice, temper, will, carriage, wounds and triumphs are part of the nation's shared experience. There are no surprises left, it would seem, in the 66-year-old leader - or in a government that came to office with an emphatic general-election victory on March...
...wrote eloquently on Daily Kos (urging liberals to temper their angry rhetoric after several Senate Democrats voted to confirm Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts last Fall) about how to remake the party. Is it because you perceive them (bloggers) as mattering...
...parliamentary immunity, was sentenced in absentia to 18 months in prison for linking Prime Minister Hun Sen to a fatal grenade attack at an opposition rally in 1997. Last week Rainsy received a pardon from King Norodom Sihamoni after issuing a statement expressing regret and pledging to temper his criticism of the country's leaders in the future...
...when most actresses shied away from such parts. She appeared in more than 60 films and was famed for her imperious on-set attitude. "How did you know I had given you permission to scold me?" she once responded to a director who had lost his temper...
...come out of the British Isles. Says Danny Blanchflower, a onetime soccer great in his own right: 'Best's movements are quick, light, balletic. He is a master of control and manipulation. And with it all, there is his utter disregard for danger.' Long of hair and short of temper, Best, 23, has been a marked man since 1968, when he led the Manchester United eleven to their first European Cup championship and was named Footballer of the Year. At 5 ft. 9 in. [1.75 m] and 150 lbs. [70 kg], he looks like a sparrow in shorts next...