Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devastated. "My confidence was completely destroyed," he said. "It took a lot of self-discipline to come back." But Harris has learned to remain unruffled even when thrown out of a hospital room while attempting to visit a man still stunned at learning that he had cancer. "His temper tantrum, was part of the disease. He couldn't have unleashed it on his family," Harris explained...
...Silvester of Orem, Utah, was the world record holder beaten by Al Oerter in 1968. He holds the record again (224 ft. 5 in.) as he goes to Munich, and Oerter has retired. But Silvester's top competition, Ricky Bruch of Sweden, has not. Once notorious for his temper tantrums and a tempestuous love life, the bearded "Giant from Skane" seems to have settled down as a serious contender...
...Astrov gives a stirring rendition of the weather report when Vanya interrupts his seduction of Irina--an example of the Chekhovian principle that the words we exchange in conversation don't mean a damn thing. And Vanya, the prototype useless intellectual, constantly brings a smile of recognition with his temper tantrums...
Sporting a tan, a toupee and a temper, Frank Sinatra finally showed up to testify before the House Select Committee on Crime and promptly denounced the legislators for permitting "character assassination." Specifically, he fumed that Mafia Enforcer Joseph Barboza had been unchallenged in testifying that Sinatra had "fronted" for the Mafia in real estate investments. "This bum went running off at the mouth. I resent it. I won't have it. I'm not a second-class citizen." Shaking a newspaper headline (WITNESS LINKS SINATRA WITH MAFIA) Sinatra snapped: "That's charming. That's all hearsay...
...worrisome lives of their children and grand-children. One son's profession as neighborhood doctor forces him to neglect his family, the Tokyo daughter is so stingy that she begrudges her parents every bite they eat, while a total lack of traditional calm surfaces in the grandson who throws temper-tantrums whenever he is crossed...