Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year which has passed since I wrote this letter has confirmed practically everything that I said. During this period the administration in Washington has conducted a reckless campaign to the end of getting this country into the European war. We have been told, without any evidence, that America stands in greater danger today that at any previous time in her century and a half of history we have been warned, in bald assertion, that Britain was our first Ine of defense against the German, and that if, Britain fell, Hitter would straightway be on our shores. We have been startled...
Like the troops the correspondents on each side were subject to capture, killing (by decision of an umpire). Reckless "bravery" did not pay. If captured, pressmen were trucked away to the enemy's prison camp, often 200 miles behind the lines, sometimes a full day's drive on truck-blocked roads. They were not released for 24 hours lest they return to the action and give useful information to their side. Amid the continual surprises of open warfare reporters spent half their time fleeing over back roads to escape capture by unexpected parties of the enemy...
...coal, steel, lumber, shipbuilding, ordnance, machinery, aviation. Even more significant for future U.S. labor relations had been the metamorphosis of the Board's own tri-partite personnel (representatives of management, labor and the public). Weighted with responsibilities, labor's own men had cracked down on many a reckless strike leader, read him the riot act. Management's men had shaken angry, executive fingers at hard-headed fellow employers. Out of one stubborn conference with employers a mediator-industrialist stamped, stormed: "Somebody ought to show those damn fools they're 40 years behind the times...
Bristled Secretary Knox: "That report is not true." Moreover, he added, it showed "a reckless disregard for the safety and lives of fellow Americans...
Said Willkie: "The campaign of 1940 is over . . . yet we seem to have a few who are trying to run a kind of out-of-season political campaign of their own. We have lately been informed that this country needs a new leader. That is reckless and misguided talk. We in America do not choose new leaders between elections. We cannot . . . have a new leadership . . . without revolution and destruction...