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Jose Mourinho Posted 9 years ago
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What does "tempering" mean in this context?

At the end of it I sat, tempering nuts with a cigarette, regretting Ogilvy's rashness, and denouncing the shortsighted timidity of the Martians.
  

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reducing the effect of the nuts

  • reducing the effect of the nuts
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reducing the effect of the nuts

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