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Witness Japan's testy response, on Dec. 7, 1941, to the United States cutting off oil exports.
The South China Morning Post writes that at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the home government got very testy over visiting foreign officials' preoccupation with the arrest and trial of former Deputy Premier Anwar Ibrahim.
"A testy Alex Trebek lashes out at contestants for not knowing the year New Amsterdam became New York."
No testy letter to the New Republic , nothing.
In case you missed the Globe story, or Ted Koppel's uncharacteristically clumsy interrogation of McCain last night on Nightline , or the newspaper follow-ups today, here's what we know: In November, and again in December, McCain, in his capacity as chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, wrote testy letters to the FCC demanding swift action on Paxson Communications' proposed acquisition of a Pittsburgh TV station.