Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shall We Dance? In Birmingham, Lucian McCrary told police who arrested him for reckless driving that a couple of girls had pulled alongside his car, shouted. "If you want to go dancing, follow us," then had outdistanced him at 110 m.p.h...
...dangerous. The danger will increase if the Communists actually carry out some commitments, and thereby again delude Americans and others with the notion of Communist "sincerity." At the moment, the non-Communist world is fairly well united, but it was welded in the intense heat of stubborn and reckless Communist aggression. If the heat is removed, will the weld hold? Or will there be a revival of French neutralism, British intellectual anti-Americanism, and another rise of Communist fellow-traveling...
...Hotel, men in checked shirts sat on high stools with gun butts sticking out of black leather holsters. Bearded commando riders shouldered their way in with Sten guns slung on their backs. The flames of a big log fire (it gets cold up here at night) flickered on reckless, sun-wrinkled faces. A pretty woman threw open her white fur coat; round her slim waist was a leather cartridge belt and a bolstered Smith & Wesson...
...This is the sort of reckless, irresponsible and false utterance that is going to be thrown at members of the teaching profession," Mrs. Meyer said...
This makes rocket progress necessarily slow. Rosen believes that Von Braun's 7,000-ton shuttle rockets - to say nothing of his space station-would be a reckless leap into the blind future, like trying to build a B-36 out of the engines and wing sections used in World War I. The inevitable outcome, he thinks, would be a gigantic fiasco...