tempers

During these drives, tensions would build, backseat rivalries would come to a head and tempers from the front seat would flair.

Lisa Firestone: How to stop yourself from "losing it" with your child Lisa Firestone 2010

During these drives, tensions would build, backseat rivalries would come to a head and tempers from the front seat would flair.

Lisa Firestone: How to stop yourself from "losing it" with your child Lisa Firestone 2010

During these drives, tensions would build, backseat rivalries would come to a head and tempers from the front seat would flair.

Lisa Firestone: How to stop yourself from "losing it" with your child Lisa Firestone 2010

The captain tempers his disgust for Josh's inability to see the bowl's beauty with the reflection that Josh was not raised Japanese, so it's not his fault.

SeeLight: 2008

The captain tempers his disgust for Josh's inability to see the bowl's beauty with the reflection that Josh was not raised Japanese, so it's not his fault.

Starship & Haiku 2008

Apparently, the HS administrators think that Mexican-American students are thin-skinned and can’t control their Latin tempers upon the mere display of American colors.

The Volokh Conspiracy » California High School Sends Kids Home for Wearing American Flag on Cinco de Mayo 2010

As for her capricious nature, the people on her estates grew accustomed to it, and with that marvellous subtlety of contrivance in steering round odd tempers, that is found in sons of the soil and dependants generally, they managed to get along under her government rather better than they would have done beneath a more equable rule.

The Woodlanders 2006

His tempers were the ruffle of a passing breeze upon deep water.

Montlivet Alice Prescott Smith

By this time the cooks had sweated in front of their furnaces for four or five hours, and their tempers were all warmed up.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

The more incompatible their tempers are the better.

A Miscellany of Men 1905