Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California, Dick Nixon caught the first heckling about the fund just as his train was about to leave Marysville. "Tell us about the $16,000!" yelled a man on the fringe of the crowd. "Hold the train! Hold the train!" shouted Nixon. Then he launched into a reckless, belligerent counteroffensive, blaming the "smear" on the "Communists and the crooks in the Government," and declaring that Democratic Candidate John Sparkman has his wife on the Government payroll...
...turned to Asia with the standard Democratic formula: economic aid, land reform, resistance to armed aggression. He deplored the fact that "some men in this country seem to think that if a definitive victory [in Korea] cannot be won, we should either take reckless military action or give the whole thing up.-Such advice plays into the enemies' hands...
Adlai Stevenson leaped into the fight (TIME, Sept. 8). At Detroit-surrounded Hamtramck, he said that Eisenhower's statement led to "speculation here and abroad that if he were elected, some reckless action might ensue in an attempt to liberate the peoples of Eastern Europe from Soviet tyranny." He added: "I tell you now that I will never fear to negotiate in good faith with the Soviet Union, for to close the door to the conference room is to open a door...
...watchers got their money's worth as Britain's flyers showed their new wares with superb and sometimes reckless showmanship. The Supermarine Swift and the Hawker Hunter, R.A.F. interceptors, flashed past the stands 100 ft. off the ground at an official 715 m.p.h., only a shade below the speed of sound. Pilot Derry in his DH-110, which was later to crash, zoomed to 17,000 ft. in a vertical, barrel-rolling climb. All three planes dived at the field, bombarding the stands with shock waves that sounded like cannon fire...
...Roaring Mountain by Lemonade Lake is about an adulteress who is shot dead by her husband and goes to Hell. The Devil is there to meet her-"a naked gigantic man" with "flat muscled belly and symmetrical widespread legs." He is "reckless," "virile," "resistless," "incontestable," "beautiful," "sinister," "primordial and unrestrained, fierce, overmastering, intemperate," "an essence ... of masculinity" fraught with "potent magnetism"-in brief, "the man every woman hopes she'll be raped by." Whenever the Devil fulfills these hopes, it causes a thunderstorm to break over Hell; much of Roaring Mountain is devoted to this special type of weather...