Word: hotheadedly
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...Toward the end of the last century the primitive descendants of white settlers made it another "Dark and Bloody Ground" with their feuds. Chief feuding clans in Breathitt County were the Callahans and the Hargises. Chief killer for the Hargises was Curt Jett, a lanky, pork-eating, whiskey-drinking hothead. He became known as the "Wild Dog of the Mountains." In 1904 Curt Jett, in behalf of James Hargis, his clan chief and uncle, shot & killed a federal officer and a local police chief.* He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Prison tamed the "Wild Dog of the Mountains...
When Eamonn (Edward) De Valera, Hispano-Gaelic* hothead, resigned from the presidency of Sinn Fein* (TIME, March 22), the world learned with surprise that there are hotter heads than his in the party, that they had voted down "his policies...
...General Balbo, Premier Benito has such a friend. Oft and again some hothead will call Benito out for one thing or another. Last week it was General Peppino Garibaldi, fiery little grandson of the Liberator. Rebuked for criticizing the conduct of the National Militia on Austrian Armistice Day (Oct. 31), Peppino demanded satisfaction of the Militia's chief. But all Peppino got for his pains was the prompt acceptance of Balbo...