Word: tempering
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...Which is not to say an income tax cut can do anything to temper a slowdown as business-related as this one is. But he could look awfully presidential trying - and that's where the right-wing tax-cut-thumpers like Dick Armey, Tom DeLay and their newest stalking horse, conservative Pennsylvania congressman Pat Toomey, come...
Jonas kept his cool, but sophomore defenseman Aaron Kim wouldn't let it slide. Kim hopped the bench and charged Jelenic, but fortunately didn't let his flaring temper get the best of him. Jelenic was assessed a ten-minute misconduct, while Kim earned two minutes in the sin bin, leaving the Crimson a man down...
...Summers has, in the past, been known for having a short temper...
Ironhead, the Intimidator, Earnhardt: he had massive, irresistible appeal. He brought fans into the sport who wouldn't know NASCAR from NASA. He was the rebel soul of a sport that had gone corporate. What roiled inside him usually came out, sometimes in fits of temper or unruly behavior behind the wheel. Whenever a race started, you wondered what Dale Earnhardt might do today...
...five dollar, 10 dollar, then you come see me?" But Ruth has reasons to keep her mother at arm's length. Her father died in a hit-and-run accident when she was two, leaving her the sole spectator and victim of her widowed mother's bad temper and ominous threats ("Maybe I die soon!"). But now Ruth realizes that her mother is behaving erratically, even for her, and seems to be mentally fading away. A doctor confirms Ruth's fears, and she understands that she must act as "mother to the child her mother had become...