Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battle Lines. The plot's truth or fiction scarcely mattered. What was important was that Nasser had made the charge at all. In doing so, he had made an open break with Saud, giving up all hope of wooing him to his Arab Republic, heedless of the fact that this must drive Saud toward the Hashemite federation of Iraq and Jordan. Plainly, Nasser was pinning his hopes of uniting the Arab world on an attempt to unseat its Kings-Iraq's Feisal, Jordan's Hussein, and now Saudi Arabia's Saud. It was a dangerous ploy...
...Heedless of some of the Lords' qualms, the government pushed ahead with its plan to modernize the Upper House with legislation that shattered the traditional hereditary principle by providing lifetime peerages for both men and women. In Commons last week, Laborites attacked the bill with gibes and merriment, deplored any attempt at reforming the House of Lords on the ground that it should be abolished entirely. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, young (33) Laborite heir of Lord Stansgate, has long been trying to divest himself of an inheritance that will blight his political career by forcing him to leave the House...
Menderes is gambling that he can create an industrialized Turkey in a matter of years without quite slipping over the brink into economic disaster. So far, he is still ahead on his gamble. In his heedless impatience, he has achieved things that more reasonable men would never have attempted. Turkey's peasants, for the first time in history, are something more than beasts of burden, have a stake in their country's future. Turkish industrial and agricultural production are far above 1950 levels, and still inching up. Says the representative of one West German company that has been...
...hilly wilds of Algeria, CBS Correspondent Frank Kearns faced a camera and began: "Here on the spot it sounds rather ridiculous to hear Washington-" He was interrupted by a cry of warning. He squinted at the sky, his shoulders hunched instinctively and he dived for shelter, suddenly heedless of any TV audience as he muttered in disgust: "Here comes a damn plane!" The interruption made a vivid TV fragment this week in Algeria Aflame, an hour-long CBS report that brought home, with the immediacy of an air raid, the war between the French and the Moslem nationalists...
...that his alcoholic brother drank himself quickly to death after insuring his life for a considerable sum. Palmer also got several girls in the family way, and there is good reason to suppose he doped race horses, robbed some of his fellow sportsmen, and was generally heedless of most conventional responsibilities...