Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viewer. In Milwaukee, Robert W. Sump was fined $100 for reckless driving, despite his explanation to the cops who chased him at speeds up to 80 m.p.h. that he: 1) did not hear their sirens or see their flashing warning lights; 2) merely overlooked one traffic light and four highway stop signs; 3) failed to notice that he was driving the wrong way up a one-way street...
Double Take. In Grand Haven, Mich., Bentley Schut headed for the courthouse to pay a reckless-driving fine, was ticketed for speeding...
Last Wednesday McLendon had offered possible embarrassment to Radcliffe girls as the main reason for the policy. He said then, "There is always danger in a mixed class that discussion might get out of hand, and reckless discussion of these subjects might be embarrassing to Radcliffe girls...
...banalities more pretentious than any it chronicles. It lists characters in the program as The Girl, The Kid Sister, The Manufacturer; it does not list scene changes but flashes them on a movie screen; it inserts needless incidental music. And there is the sudden happy ending-ascribable, perhaps, to reckless optimism on the lovers' part, but more easily to commercial pessimism on the author's about harsher endings...
Finding each passing minute inexpressibly sweet, Donat lives with-for him-a reckless bravado. Mounting the pulpit for his sermon to the students, he tears up his prepared notes and launches into a compelling hosanna to the joys of living dangerously, accepting all manner of challenges and temptations, throwing off the winding sheets of conformity. The boys love it, of course, but the church elders are shocked...