Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharing in the execution of a great and significant event. And Actor Stewart, for all his professional, 48-year-old boyishness, succeeds almost continuously in suggesting what all the world sensed at the time: that Lindbergh's flight was not the mere physical adventure of a rash young "flying fool," but rather a journey of the spirit, in which, as in the pattern of all progress, one brave man proved himself for all mankind as the paraclete of a new possibility...
...stock market is extremely sensitive to talk-especially when it comes from high places. Last week a rash of talk from Washington about the state of the U.S. economy unnerved an already shaky market and sent it into a spin...
...country club chewing over their ideas, looking for the best solution. Says Galvin: "What we have accomplished is to create an atmosphere where people don't mind making unusual suggestions in conferences. We've found that we can sometimes get through certain problems more quickly. A rash idea may prompt a useful...
...Police controls, strident propaganda and a rash of rumors-of plots, arrests, command quarrels-betrayed the spreading uncertainty in Cairo. But all of Nasser's overpowering propaganda could not camouflage some of the facts: the Israelis were still occupying part of Sinai and all of Gaza, and refusing to pull out of their positions at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba until the Egyptians guaranteed them free access to the Red Sea. The new U.S. Middle East policy, with its implied threat to isolate Nasser if he refuses to play the game with the Western side...
When Marsh & McLennan was founded in 1871, insurance policies were still written in longhand, and the agent rash enough to book as much as $5,000 subject to a single loss was nicknamed "jumbo." But Henry W. Marsh, an agile, fast-talking supersalesman, and Donald R. McLennan, a careful technician who knew how to make salesmanship pay off, soon changed all that. M. & M. advised the Moore Brothers' Diamond Match Co. and National Biscuit Co. empire, won the insurance account for what later became U.S. Steel, convinced the Great Northern Railway that it should place its first comprehensive insurance...