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John Richard Yoho, a young Annapolis-and-Pensacola-trained officer of the regular Navy, who understands the circuitous ways of bureaucracy, tempers these impetuosities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aside from his own irritating impetuosities, Fiorello LaGuardia's worst handicap last week was the fact that for millions in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

But for an elderly star left after supernova explosions and other impetuosities with more than several times the Sun’s mass, there are no forces known that can prevent collapse.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

A few million years ago, when human beings first evolved on Earth, it was already a middle-aged world, 4.6 billion years along from the catastrophes and impetuosities of its youth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The petrifying influence of surprise yielded to the impetuosities of passion.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden