Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the sickles and the reaping hooks . . . and there was another scream and another scream and I saw two men chopping into his back with sickles. . . ." However he may fancy himself as a leftist sympathizer, as a great and sensitive artist Ernest Hemingway is well over the Red rash. The bell in this book tolls for all mankind...
...That's no Shwayder talk," quipped Hu. "As a football prognosticator you'd be good at the keystone Czak. Laine any bets on the Crimson Saturday? Don't MacKinney rash predictions...
...This rash decision wrecked the conference, and put an end to any immediate hope for stabilized international exchange. ... It thus weakened the structure of the democratic world and opened the way to the aggressive designs of Hitler...
...Board of Higher Education, which runs four municipal colleges (C. C. N. Y., Hunter, Brooklyn and Queens), is unafraid. It braved the wrath of Bishop William T. Manning and other moralists last spring by appointing Bertrand Russell a C. C. N. Y. professor.*Last week it again was rash. It prepared to appoint as president of C. C. N. Y., one of the nation's biggest colleges (25,810 students, day and evening), Dexter Merriam Keezer, president of small (550 students), progressive Reed College, Portland...
...telegram: ". . . Profound admiration ... for the dignity, courage and tenacity shown by Your Majesty and your people . . . [The Allied Governments] are bringing all help in their power ... so that the Allied forces, fighting side by side with the Norwegians, may prove this latest outrage by Germany to have been as rash as it was wicked." But by this time, General von Falkenhorst had some 80,000 picked troops in Norway. Most of them were, like himself, Austrians - skilled mountain fighters (jager) at home on skis, practiced in the guerrilla type of warfare waged so effectively by the Finns in rough, forested...