Word: rashness
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Vellucci claimed that some of his "rash" steps taken in the past were made because "It was just a psychological move on my part to bring Cambridge to action (on the parking problem). I decided in my own little way that I had to take on City Hall--not only City Hall but Harvard and M.I.T...
...attorney general resigned. Though he denounced Bridges' threat as "a rash and useless act," Sylva offered no apology for attending the dinner. Said he: "No one could have misinterpreted my appearance there. I don't agree with Governor King's approach to the problem at all. There have been many substantial changes in unions in Hawaii in the past five years. Our thinking has got to change to keep abreast of the times...
...Rash & Hustle. The first tour, which covered 15,000 miles and touched down at 32 states (including the exploration in Texas) was as much a pushing and probing operation as it was a personal campaign tour. Nixon talked long and late with local political leaders, reporting almost daily to the White House and the G.O.P. National Committee on what he heard. Fearful that complacency was overtaking an Ike-happy G.O.P., he emphasized the weak spots in his reports to Washington and in his conferences. The result: a rash of newspaper stories and columns late in September that the G.O.P...
...policy. And as he whistle-stopped through Michigan and Ohio, hedgehopped into Kentucky and then flew in to Cincinnati, he worked these themes hard. In Michigan, in heavily industrial (and heavily unionized) Flint, nobody seemed to care much. Some 3,500 turned out to hear him call Nixon "shifty," "rash" and "inexperienced," a "man of many masks." (Tom Dewey had drawn 5,000 the night before.) The crowd in the one-third empty auditorium responded politely: although the words were harsh, Stevenson's manner was courteous...
...month before this book's publication, Boston papers broke into a rash of headlines: SPICY BOOK HAS NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN AGOG. The town: Gilmanton (pop. 750). The book's author: Novelist Grace Metalious, 32, plump, ponytailed, blue-jeaned wife of the principal of Gilmanton's grammar school. The school board had not renewed George Metalious' contract, but the decision was taken, said the board convincingly, before anyone knew what was in the book. Still, Grace remarked grandly to reporters: "I knew this would happen. Everybody who lives in a small town knows what's going...