Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bank of California, Canners League, railroads, utilities, packers, employer associations. Claimed membership is 40,000. According to the La Follette Committee report, a truer figure would be something under 12,000. The membership includes a small percentage of small growers in the State who were scared by desperate, frequently reckless labor tactics and were genuinely hurt by growing labor costs. But the important membership is a large percentage of the large growers. They are the hierarchy and inner circle, gentlemen landinternational FARMER BANCROFT His enemies comforted...
Even before the third surprise was complete, the fourth surprise had taken place. A British Army of 400,000 men, all but surrounded in Flanders, succeeded in effecting its escape by sea from Dunkirk-explained by dogged British courage, the reckless brilliance of British seamanship, and the ability of the Royal Air Force to maintain local command of the air. The fifth surprise took place no one knew exactly when-when Hitler found his forces unable to undertake a direct assault last summer on Britain herself. The explanation has never been completely given, but it included as its chief ingredients...
...Republican presidential candidate, hammering in the last week of his campaign with renewed intensity at the third term and national defense issues, declared that President Roosevelt had failed to build an adequate defense while engaging in "reckless flights into the field of diplomacy...
With their foreign market already lost, the movies are getting pretty reckless. They say "Nazi" and "Fascist" and "Ribbentrop" as easily as if they were the names of cocktails. In line with this spirit of adventure, Hollywood showed up last week with a document, a drama, a comedy, none of which pulls its punches when it mentions the new order in Europe, all of which are better for their courage...
...British made Colonel Sweeney a reserve captain in R. A. F. to make it all pukka. They segregated the reckless Americans, rather than salt them into the conservative R. A. F. Among them are barnstormers, crop-dusters, stunt fliers, sportsmen. Youngest is Gregory ("Gus") Daymond, 19, of California, who used to fly an ice-cream king around South America. Oldest is Paul Joseph Haaren, 48, also of California, a movie flier. Most celebrated Eagle is Colonel Sweeney's nephew, wavy-haired Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who won the British amateur golf championship in 1937 and lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz...