Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement contained on page 95 in the issue of TIME of Dec. 2, in which you characterize the Empire Plow Co. as "moribund," was evidently made by you in reckless disregard of the truth. Because of the wide circulation of your magazine it will have a seriously injurious and damaging effect upon the business of the Empire Plow Co., which is one of the oldest and best established agricultural implement concerns in America, with a worldwide distribution of its products. . . . The business of the Empire Plow Co. is over 100 years old ... has [long] enjoyed the highest confidence and reputation...
...followers, Dadswell has his own sort of glamor. Readers who might be sold the Brooklyn Bridge can warm up to the man who confesses that he bought a $5,000 diamond for $25 from a mysterious Mexican, discovered it was a zircon "not worth a buck." He has the reckless savvy of the smart fellow who retires on his earnings (he did in 1926, 1938, 1945), and then shows up broke for a fresh start. But if his new column brings him another competence, Dadswell insists it will have to come from little papers. He has promised never to raise...
Actually, it is much quicker to walk to and from the Bowl, but any individual reckless enough to try it might get caught in a "scramble" or run down by a fast-charging trolley...
Shortly afterwards, the United Kingdom, first of the great powers to speak out since the general debate began yesterday, attacked Russia for her "reckless use" of the veto in the Security Council...
...United Kingdom warned that if the "reckless use" of the veto is continued the United Nations Security Council "very soon" will be discredited...