Word: impetuousity
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Last week, 14 months after impetuous Mohammed Mossadegh broke diplomatic relations with the British, his successor, General Fazlollah Zahedi. resumed them. Added London: the two nations "will proceed at the earliest mutually agreed moment to negotiate a settlement of the oil dispute."
Ickes nonetheless emerges as an oddly appealing figure. In his own view, he lived in a world full of the rascally, the inept and the misguided. He was so suspicious of evil that he organized a private detective force to keep the Interior Department toeing the mark. He balefully noted...
Not of the Gentry. Magsaysay is the first man to reach the top in the Philippines who is not of the gentry. A blunt, impetuous man who often acts before he thinks, Magsaysay has by no means yet mastered the coral-sharp reefs of Filipino politics, nor is he the...
As Life Can Be Beautiful (known to the trade, through its initials, as Elsie Beebe) celebrates its 15th year on the air, Papa David (played since the beginning by Actor Ralph Locke) is still dispensing amateur philosophy; Chichi, as impetuous as ever, has her followers wondering whether her heart belongs...
The Rights of Man. Burke's conservatism accepted and insisted upon the necessity of change. But change, said Burke, flows from the law of Providence; it should come as the result of "a need generally felt," and not by ukase based upon abstract theorizing. Conservatives can accept change as...