Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference, President Eisenhower quietly set straight what was probably the most reckless blunder of the Stevenson campaign. The U.S. had indeed made a loan to Argentina, but it was for $130 million, not $100 million, said he. And it was made not by his Administration but by Truman's. Later in the week Secretary of State Foster Dulles underscored another pertinent point: Perón thrived in office all through the Truman Administration, fell from power during the Eisenhower Administration-which has propped up the new government with a total of $160 million in loans...
John, Duke of Marlborough (as he became), and his wife Sarah are hero and heroine of this latest hymn to grandeur and glory by British Historian A. L. Rowse (The Expansion of Elizabethan England; The English Past). When empires decline and the spirit of reckless adventure ebbs, there are always a few men like Rowse to blow the old trumpet furiously and trot out the glorious dead as an example to the pusillanimous living. "History," says Rowse, "is an extension of life into the past: there are lessons to be learned, and people should learn them...
...still in its infancy, Democrats Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson decided to blow the lid off the issue of corruption in government. "Racketeers," cried Truman in describing the members of the Eisenhower Administration for the edification of fellow Democrats at the Chicago convention. Far from disavowing Harry's reckless wording, Nominee Stevenson last week charged that a "contagion of Republican misconduct and corruption . . . has marked the Eisenhower Administration from start to finish...
...real point was a point of law and order: it must be shown that other nations cannot deprive the Western powers of their right or threaten their vital interests with reckless impunity. If Nasser got away with his grab unpenalized, other Arabs in other lands might take it as a precedent for grabs of their own-at British and U.S. oil and pipelines. And if Nasser's truculence became a pattern elsewhere, it could destroy all hopes of fruitful cooperation between the world's free industrial nations and the underdeveloped countries...
Airtight Case. In Dayton, Ky. Dick Beuerlein, 24, escaped from jail where he was being held on a reckless-driving charge, was recaptured two hours later explained to cops: "I've got claustrophobia...