Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family. To purge his horror of the village massacre, he must speak out against the war. He infiltrates the 1972 Republican Convention in Miami Beach and gets on TV. When a security guard dumps Ron out of his wheelchair, he fights back with a Marine's heedless bravery. "We're gonna take the hall back!" he cries to his troops. "Fall out! Let's move...
...disaster. "We couldn't do a damn thing at first because we didn't have any equipment. We broke into a factory yard and got ladders. Then two kids came with forklifts from another factory. We put pallets on them, lifted them up like stretchers and brought people down." Heedless of aftershocks that continued to rumble, ghetto youths perched atop ladders, peering into 18-in. gaps between the layers of concrete to help mostly white commuters climb to safety. Said McElroy: "In time of disaster, people don't ask your color. They just ask for help...
...month's two historic calamities: the 1987 collapse on Oct. 19 and the 1929 debacle on Oct. 29. Particularly gnawing was the memory that 1987's Black Monday was preceded by a Friday plunge of 108.35 points. Last week's drop-off rekindled fears that an era of heedless borrowing by corporations and the Federal Government might finally be coming to grief. At the very least, the rout reminded investors that the stock market is a volatile place where fortunes can vanish at the touch of a computer key. After one frantic hour of selling conducted to a large extent...
...argued, of course, that American resolve was what brought the Soviets around. For all the uncertainties, progress to date is largely due to an almost heedless Soviet willingness to say da. "This is an entirely different Soviet attitude than we have ever seen before," says a senior aide to Baker. But until the Administration decides what to make of that attitude, START -- and other issues -- could stay stalled...
...Pogues muscled mainstream folk music out of its rut. Their raucous, carefully heedless style opened the way for the Hothouse Flowers, the Proclaimers and the Waterboys, three of the best bands working the newly fertile field of electric folk. The Pogues redirected and redefined a tradition that even such disparate talents as Tracy Chapman, the Indigo Girls and Suzanne Vega are working to excellent effect. Mind you, listening to MacGowan blister his way through Young Ned of the Hill or White City will not bring a fond smile to folkies who prefer their music mild, like a cup of chamomile...