Word: heedless
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...production so far below normal that feverish speculation ensued. Denials, contradictions, and corrections only added to the confusion and at last Mr. Daugherty took up the cudgels, armed with an injunction. But the court refused to grant the injunction, and now Mr. Hylan has entered the breach, heedless of the aphorism that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread". In a proclamation on Saturday the Mayor declared that "the government has failed to help us. Let us help ourselves", and called "on all good citizens in their homes to observe Monday of each week as 'Sugarless Monday...
...many students must have taken up their work this year--a spirit of realization that they belonged in College just now because this is the very place where they can make themselves of the most value in the long run. This is a thought calculated to sober the most heedless; and the accompanying reflection that it is for them in their security to do something at least approximating in value what many of their contemporaries are doing at the peril of their lives must provide an unaccustomed spur for the daily task. The pity would be if there were...
...life in seeking tremendous goals. But since we do not know, nor even the shrewdest men, for all their cleverness, dare to guess, we cannot say what value to place on mortality, and whether it is better that men live their allotted term of three score years and ten heedless of the fall and rise of worlds, or whether it is better that men die before their time that great deeds may be accomplished. But all men who think hold a philosophy of life. And that philosophy determines their actions...
...said that the northeastern states alone retard the passage of this pressing war measure. The South and the West, heedless of what might be to their own immediate profit, have generously and willingly done away with intoxicants for their own safety, and the greater safety of the nation...
...believe that the punishment is too harsh. A man can never outgrow the stigma attached to his name for an act of dishonesty widely known. However hard he may try to be upright in after life, however far removed from his true character deceit may be, this one heedless act will expose him to the scorn of all the world and will prevent his becoming a useful man. Finding no man who trusts him, his career is doomed in advance to failure. The publishing of his name has branded him for life...