Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then came the 1929 crash. Cobina blames herself now for being so heedless of business affairs; while the bottom was falling out of the stock market she was busy with cross-country concerts and social life. She had also lost touch with her husband. A few years after the Wright millions went down the drain, the marriage broke up. Bill went off with another woman. They were divorced, not without a scandal "spicy enough," she notes, "to share front-page space with the trial of the Lindbergh kidnaper...
...Heedless of South African law, which states clearly that mingling of white and black persons is a criminal offense, light-skinned sailormen, heavy with pocket money, paraded the streets with Zulu-dark girls, while Cape Town's white Portuguese chatted happily in their mother tongue with handsome, mahogany-brown Brazilians. Local police tried desperately to figure out which were black, which were white and which in-betweens, finally gave up. Brazilian Captain Pedro Paulo de Aranjo Suzano was no help at all. Said he: "They are all Brazilians...
...quiet now. Beyond the pass there was an eerie silence. All our outposts had withdrawn to prepared positions. The wounded had been removed from the field during the fighting, thanks to the heroic efforts of Army Medical Corpsmen who drove jeeploads of groaning soldiers back from the front, heedless of enemy fire...
Nevertheless, U.S. drinkers had the jitters about a possible liquor shortage. Their rush to stock up moved several whisky distributors to put dealers on temporary allocations, and the heedless excess last week brought customers quick hangovers. Schenley Distillers, Inc. announced that it was hiking its eight-year-old, 100-proof rye and bourbon $1.35 a fifth, bringing the price in some localities...
...with the Jury! The common practice in dealing with a jury in disagreement, writes Author Bernard O'Donnell, Fleet Street crime reporter, was to load its members into a cart and haul them around the city "so that a jeering populace could express their contempt for men so heedless of their duties as citizens." All in all, readers who still think that King John's Magna Carta brought a fairly modern sense of justice into British courts will have their eyes opened by Author O'Donnell's blood-curdling history of Old Bailey and its even...