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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

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

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

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

You speak again of the jealousy aroused in you by your wife's impetuosities.

From The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair by Green, Anna Katharine