Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power and by principle, dependent upon its caution and its wisdom. "By caution, I mean a prudent guard against fatuous expectations that a world, sick with ignorance, mutual fears and hates, can be miraculously cured by a single meeting. I mean a stern determination that we shall not be reckless and witless, relaxing our posture merely because a persistent foe may assume a smiling face and a soft voice. By wisdom, I mean a calm awareness that strength at home, strength in allies, strength in moral position, arm us in impregnable fashion to meet every wile and stratagem that...
Hatoyama's precarious right wing coalition of Liberals and Democrats is in hot water at home, which weakens his ability to deal with the Russians, but may tempt him to dally with them in a reckless last-minute bid for popularity. But Hatoyama must also ask himself whether Japan can afford to quit the U.S. shelter. The U.S. spends about $800 million a year in Japan, and provides its only real defense...
Understatement. In Detroit, police charged Mrs. Asenath V. Brown with reckless driving after she 1) smashed into the last of four cars stopped for a red light, causing a chain collision, 2) swung around through a red light, 3) went over the curb and struck a 15-year-old boy, 4) carried him draped over the fender through the plate-glass window of a drug store, 5) smashed into the merchandise, showering a clerk with glass...
...season's chief trend was less toward sex, however, than toward good old-fashioned theater, often with an Age of Violence twist. Unabashed in dialogue if a bit evasive in theme, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof had Williams' usual plunging force and reckless, unbraked use of it. Maxwell Anderson's harrowing The Bad Seed (about an eight-year-old murderess) wallowed in pain for pain's sake, used tragedy for matinee shudders. Though effective, it never provided-as did Joseph Hayes's The Desperate Hours-the exhilarating tingle of a good thriller. A tidy...
None for the Road. In Paris, contending that a client charged with reckless driving on the way home from a nightclub had simply been too sober, Lawyer Rene Floriot asked the court to imagine sitting up until 5 a.m. "without letting champagne refresh your ideas and your palate," concluded: "Under these circumstances . . . a catastrophe is inevitable...