Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This will introduce Richard Tewkesbury, a reckless stubborn young American who is ambitious to make the trip overland from the Canal to Colombia. I urge you to dissuade him from this mad adventure. If, however, he will not be discouraged, will you please give him such assistance as you reasonably...
...Zealanders with a sprinkling of British and Australians. All during the day this force rounded up German parties, disposing of all except the one threatening Malemi. The transports and gliders kept coming, at higher cost: in the daylight they were easier targets, and in their reckless disregard of expense, the Germans crash-landed many planes. As the day ended, the British claimed they had killed or captured 1,800 of the first 3,000 who landed...
Fortunately there are still groups in this country that can do something to hold back the President from his reckless policy. The White House is perpetually picketed by the American Peace Mobilization. This weekend the Keep America Out of War Congress will hold convention in Washington. These representatives of a vast section of the American people must not let themselves be intimidated; they must take the speech as an occasion to step up their efforts; the only thing they have to fear is fear itself...
Even the Foreign Minister seemed to be indulging in wishful thinking on that point. Scarcely had he set foot on Japanese soil than he delivered himself of a speech in which he said: "It is extremely reckless to maintain relations with persons that one has not even met. Only a fool or a genius can do that...
TIME has again proved its leadership-this time in the reckless promotion of our entry into the European war. Your lying assumption that only a few traitors, etc. oppose the present war hysteria hits a new low in misrepresentation...