Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laborite Bevan's reckless political course, leading to his resignation from his party's parliamentary committee (TIME, April 29), was also getting him in trouble. Sir Winston Churchill gloated that Nye's revolt had left him "a stranded whale." Last week the whale was expertly harpooned by Bevan's No. 1 rival in the Labor Party, Deputy Leader Herbert Morrison. Apparently with full approval of Clement Attlee, Morrison, in the Laborite monthly Socialist Commentary, accused
Bevan of losing the Laborites "30 to 50 seats" in the 1951 general elections by his reckless description of Tories as "lower than vermin...
...wars beat up and battle-scarred. By that time, buslines, paralleling the trolley routes, were cutting profits so drastically that the private owners of the trolley system could not afford to replace worn-out rolling stock. Worse yet, they were forced to entrust the battered cars to reckless motormen, who trundled them through the city like juggernauts. As a result, accidents were frequent...
...Shanghai at the age of 15. He considers Hong Kong, with its well-enforced traffic regulations, a much easier place to drive in than Shanghai, with its ped-icab-ricksha-clogged streets. On the other hand, Tokyo traffic, reports Bureau Chief Dwight Martin, is without doubt the most reckless, dangerous and completely unpredictable of any major city in the world. The special peril, he adds, are the taxis - darting, speeding little engines of destruction. The man who braves these haz ards for TIME is 25-year-old Shoichi Imai, who knows the fastest possible routes between the TIME office...
...well in New Haven. It gets pretty dull when you win 113 meets in a row, and people have been going to fencing matches instead. And so, with the reckless abandon of a tapped junior, the Daily recently came out for an improvement in the Yale swimming situation...