Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although too voceriferous and heedless of parliamentary form, America's little business men displayed in the recent Washington conference a shrewd understanding of government. In their report to the President, the tone of which, but not the sentiment, was modified by the Resolutions Committee and Secretary Roper, they showed that neither the depression, recession, nor world unrest has upset their balance and destroyed the American's most characteristic virtue: his common sense. Their suggestions, by no means perfect and complete, seem to crystallize public opinion as well as any other twenty-three remedial proposals have done...
...author recognizes that young always have ideals, and he may agree that without such visions there can be no progress. In this post-war era youth has become aware of the cosmic problems of life, and his attitude towards the world is no longer that of a heedless child. For every fundamental obstacle to ultimate happiness he has formed many solutions, most of which are probably wrong, but some of which must contain the germ of truth. Unfortunately, because of the complex social system, in which his elders refuse to yield the sceptre, dreading a change in the status...
...Most heedless slip, the U. S. entry into the World...
...That in the heat of battle he had lost his head; that he had determined to quell once and for all the spirit of revolt that is apt to affect second-term Congresses; that he was ignorant or heedless of the fact that by his course he was permanently splitting an already divided party and risking everything to gain little, even if he won on the immediate Court issue...
...That far from being heedless, he had determined that the time had come to split his party, to purge it deliberately of its conservative elements, so that henceforward the New Dealers could close their ranks and perform their evolutions unimpeded by the presence of old-fashioned Democrats...