Word: impetuousity
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For Prestige. One of Sidi Mounsaf's fellow puppets, bewhiskered, penny-pinching Admiral Jean Estéva, made good his escape from Tunisia. In Estéva's post as Tunisia's Resident General. General Giraud plunked his own man: tall, jolly General Alphonse Juin, French field...
Shortly before his death Brigadier General Hugh ("Iron Pants") Johnson made a prophecy about his friend Major General George Smith ("Old Blood and Guts") Patton Jr.: "Critics say he is reckless and impetuous. That's what was said at West Point. He says he is going to command an...
Later Seabrook relapsed, turned the barn at his swagger Dutchess County home into a scientific "research" laboratory. With "research girls" for guinea pigs, Seabrook and his friends "evoked . . . 'gods' and 'devils,' " dabbled in witchcraft and clairvoyance. Once more Seabrook began to drink, was cured again by...
Editor Osés was hauled up three months ago for saying that a visit of Argentine congressmen to the U.S. prepared a "Yankee invasion" of Argentina. In July 1940 he was arrested for obscenity, for printing an ostensibly mild lampoon of Winston Churchill which was an acrostic: the first...
The Cockney's street barrows were bright with yellow jonquils. In Soho Square the hedges turned from sooty brown to impetuous green. The stark winter skeletons of the trees in Hyde Park were smudged by swollen buds; purple crocuses pushed up in the rain. It was spring in London...