Word: tantrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prepared lunch for my active four-year-old son and two-year-old daughter, who was having her usual mealtime tantrum, I could not help thinking of those Catholic priests who were meeting to pursue a new church ruling regarding celibate or married life. If they could share some of our hectic meal ordeals, they would surely want to remain celibate...
...hippie movement is comparable to a temper tantrum. Peace, love and honesty as goals are not original with the hippies. The hippie conception of Utopia is sentimentalized love, license in place of honesty, distortion of the arts and of ethics, replacement of the peace pipe by pot. You state that gentle treatment is accorded hippies by "people in authority." The reason for this just could be the tendency to take these people's exhibitionism as a serious movement, or to fear to be considered "straight." Why not be proud to be? Granted that materialism and other abuses abound...
...South. Yet the American policy of the past few weeks--the decisions to hit the steel mill in the North, to shell the North's coast, to lob artillery shells across the demilitarized zone--will have the effect of making peace more remote than ever. And the military tantrum which resulted from Johnson's recent bout of impatience with Ho will probably convince the North that future talk in Washington about peace and "unconditional discussions...
Specter wasted no time last week in getting his campaign under way. Tate's government-by-crony, he said, produces underlings who "take direction by tantrum." To cope with Philadelphia's problems of poverty, housing, race relations, retaining and attracting industry, he added, "you need imagination and execution at the top municipal levels. We don't have that here...
...week, though, because Lucille, who is lucky if she is bathed once a month, immediately developed a rattle in the vicinity of her tail gate. In her defense, I must say that her only serious misbehavior, which occurred after I let a friend drive her, was a transmission tantrum violent enough to cause me to rent a car for the weekend. When I took her to the hospital, a team of transmission specialists and consultants was unable to find any organic disorder, leading us to conclude that she was just paying me back...