Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hamtramck. Stevenson told a Polish-American audience that Eisenhower's American Legion speech had "aroused 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." Stevenson tore into this straw man, saying that the Soviet grip "upon your friends and relatives cannot be loosened by loose talk or idle threats [or] by starting a war which would lead to untold suffering." Toward the end of his speech. Stevenson said that he did not interpret Eisenhower's words in this warlike...
...countrymen, many of whom thought him wrongheaded and reckless as a politician, honored Schumacher as a man. A spokesman for his bitter political foe, the right-wing Free Democratic Party, said of him: "Great opponents are blessings of fate, even if they work fiercely against us and are a great discomfort...
...responsibility for the strike is Lovett's boss. Seven months ago, when the steel strike was imminent, Harry Truman felt the tug of all the complex influences which have grown out of organized labor's long kinship with the Democratic Party. He reacted instinctively - i.e., with reckless political partisanship. He abandoned Government's position of impartiality to rush to the side of labor, and in so doing, he tumbled into a constitutional crisis. He displayed an uncanny talent for demanding negotiations when they had no chance to succeed, for upsetting negotiations when the prospects were promising...
...until Feinsinger put his blessing on the union shop. When Feinsinger was asked at a press conference why the WSB stretched its authority to recommend the union shop, he blurted: "We were boxed in." Then he got around to a lawyer's justification of the WSB's reckless venture into a field that was none of its business...
...size. Iceland was low man with $15 million; the vast sterling area, which was admitted as a single trading partner, got $1.06 billion. If any nation went into debt, its IOUs were good, at least at the beginning. But the rules of the game made it tough on reckless losers: the moreIOUs a nation wrote, the larger the proportion of its debts it would have to settle in gold or dollars, instead of in its local currency. A converse rule protected the bank from over-lucky winners: the more credits a nation piled up, the smaller percentage of its surplus...