Word: adventuristic
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...leaflet that called the riot and colored it with their own reck-lessness, elitism and male chauvinism is a question that can be left aside. What the band of surely no more than ten did that night was wrong and, to use a good descriptive word, was plainly adventurist for among others, the following reason...
...minds, Czechoslovak newspaper and radio columnists fueled the scare. "For God's sake," a Radio Prague commentator addressed Moscow, "don't repeat the tragic experience of Yugoslavia and Hungary." Práce, the trade-union newspaper, editorialized that "any sort of military intervention represents such an adventurist policy that it is unbelievable that any member or responsible body such as the Soviet Central Committee could take it into consideration...
...whites so guilt-ridden and impassioned that their feeling about the burning cities is 'Let them burn.' " Expression of anger is understandable, but the "prolonged assault" against the city of Washington could "no longer be explained as a catharsis but only as the beginnings of an adventurist effort at guerrilla...
...delicate balance of power between Russia and the U.S. that has kept the peace since World War II, thus producing a Balkanized world and bringing the danger of nuclear war much closer. Looked at in this fashion, he says, Charles de Gaulle's present policies constitute "an adventurist and irresponsible nationalism" that has already "helped bring the world closer to a disregard of the deadly facts of the nuclear...
...peace, pushing the world closer to an abyss of atomic war." There were no immediate demonstrations in Moscow or in Communist China, although the Chicoms sounded angriest of all. Peking newspaper Ta Rung Pao charged that the tests showed that President Kennedy is "more vicious, more cunning and more adventurist than his predecessor...