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Word: reckless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...History gives us ample warning. The new Germany seems determined to make the army the servants of a democratic state not the tool of a reckless dictation," Conant said in a speech before the General Assembly of the States, a meeting of state governors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commissioner Conant Claims German Army Is No Threat to West | 12/4/1954 | See Source »

...issue against men like Senator Murray of Montana and Mr. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, his imputation of "softness toward Communism" to the entire national leadership of the Democratic Party, his cynical manipulation of the issues of peace and war for partisan advantage, his reckless playing of the security "numbers game"-in all these things Nixon propagated a dangerous tendency in our politics that could, if it goes unchallenged, destroy the foundations of decent political debate in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...settled on a rework of the stock script about war-weary American youth in Europe. Ostensibly patterned after a Scott Fitzgerald novel, it somehow misplaces World War I and ends up occurring in 1945. Otherwise, it is Hollywood's latest testimonial to its own mixed up conception of gay, reckless Paris...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: The Last Time I Saw Paris | 11/26/1954 | See Source »

...Gutter. In Compton, Calif., James A. Beasley was fined $100 for reckless flying, despite his explanation that "I was flying too low because my wife wanted to point out the bowling alley where she bowled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...same time that Anthony Eden made Britain's commitment toward German sovereignty and rearmament, Britain's most reckless statesman made a last-ditch effort to exploit the fears and emotions aroused by that issue. Aneurin Bevan did not conceal his purpose: to wrest the Labor Party's leadership from the temperate hands of Clement Attlee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Genius in the Gutter | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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