Word: impetuousity
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By patient advance spadework in Asian capitals, U.S. diplomats managed to resolve the differences and preclude embarrassments. In Saigon, for example, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge urged Premier Nguyen Cao Ky to beware of impetuous remarks that might wreck the conference-such as repeating his proposal to invade North Viet Nam...
Old age does not always win such praise from O.K., as he signs his works. A far more personal statement is a recent oil, Saul and David, full of the swirl of clashing colors and impetuous brushstroke. Explains the painter: "I painted David next to the angry old man. The...
The pride of the Post, however, is its editorial page, which reflects the paper's nondoctrinaire Democratic liberalism. Under James Russell Wiggins, a onetime Post managing editor, a group of scholarly writers achieve a force and clarity that stand out in sharp contrast with the inconclusive, ambiguous prose of...
Sir: Your heart-rending explication of Actor George Hamilton's impecunious plight has softened the hearts and moistened the eyes of even the most leathery marine in this office. In a spontaneous charitable eruption, we have amassed a small contribution, consisting of Military Payment Certificates (the medium of exchange...
D. H. Lawrence once described himself as "a kind of human bomb." The bomb exploded in all directions. Lawrence left 14 brooding, contentious novels, dozens of excited essays, scores of loose, somewhat lumpy poems, and hundreds of febrile, fretful letters. He painted, occasionally, as he wrote, in an earnest, impetuous...