Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could have said things better. Being terribly cautious about how I phrase things sometimes [means] it has less impact than if I were more freewheeling. You have to balance the two, and I find it a little easier as I go along to be a little freer without being careless. I come to this from my training as a lawyer. You have to be damn careful. If you're loose with what you say, you may have lost the case. I am dealing with a lot of nations who are watching. Don't think they...
...Americans as "the true existentialists ... Anxiety is the price that must be paid for boundless opportunity, including the opportunity to cheat the system, and not everyone can handle it." But passion does not improve the reasoning process, and when the author supports his arguments with windy civics lectures and careless unravelings from U.S. history, he can be more provocative than illuminating. Cases in point include a lame paragraph that seeks to prove "a high incidence of breakdown among men and women in public life" by linking the troubles of Explorer Meriwether Lewis (who died in 1809, probably a suicide...
...Kaplan, the Crimson's third NCAA qualifier, fenced well in epee but failed to make the final round-robin fence-off because of several careless losses...
...results: carbon fibers are good conductors of electricity and thus can cause short circuits, arcing and sometimes fire. According to a recent NASA study, there have been more than a dozen such incidents since 1970 in industrial plants producing or using the fibers. As use of the composites increases, careless disposal and burning of wastes could release enough fibers into the air to short out air conditioners, TV sets, radios and even large power generating systems...
...Opera. The commanding tenor today, he can do a great many things wonderfully well. Some of them, like spinning out a legato line or singing a high C, are displayed in La Favorita. As an actor Pavarotti can be funny or tragic (both in La Bohème), or a careless aristocrat (the Duke in Rigoletto). But with his native wit and musical intelligence, Pavarotti cannot act dumb. Unfortunately, that is required of Fernando, the hero of La Favorita...