Word: impetuousity
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The Alter Ego. The vision came to pass, and Churchill, proven right, was the man to grapple with it. He sent for Anthony Eden, and during World War II there grew up a phenomenon unique in English political life: the Churchill-Eden partnership. Back at the Foreign Office, Eden was...
¶ Stormy Tory Leader Quintin Hogg (now Viscount Hailsham) wrote that if Christ returned, "we should learn again a secret, lost now to all except the saints in heaven-his sheer gaiety and charm, his incredible vitality, his spontaneous wit . . . Can you imagine anything but a smile when he nicknames...
Ex-King Norodom, an impetuous young man, had quit his palace once before to get what he wanted: more independence from the French. He had kept his latest surprise all to himself: 48 hours before his abdication, he had lunched with visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and...
Nothing, vowed impetuous young Carol, would induce him to renounce Zizi. But Ferdinand thought he knew a way. The King had his courts declare his son's marriage null, banished Zizi, had the son she had borne declared illegitimate, and cut off Carol's allowance. Outflanked and outmaneuvered...
At week's end, President Eisenhower, who does not intend to pay blackmail for American prisoners, called on the nation for patience. "We must have faith in the community of nations and in the tremendous influence of world opinion," the President proclaimed. "We must not fall into a Communist...