Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knock on the Door. Hitler was well on his way to power when Schumacher arrived in Berlin in 1930 as a newly elected Reichstag Deputy from Württemberg. Almost immediately Schumacher made his mark. "He was most daring, most reckless, most lacking in respect," recalls the man who was then Reichstag president, "the same as today." His speeches were few but brash, sarcastic and courageous. One day in May 1932, after Goebbels had attacked the German Socialists on the Reichstag floor, Deputy Schumacher rose in fury to reply. "The whole National Socialist movement," he cried, "is only a lasting...
Sharply and concisely, Judge Streit summarized a "heinous, degrading and shocking" picture: "I found that intercollegiate basketball and football at Kentucky have become highly systematized, professionalized and commercialized enterprises. I found covert subsidization of players, ruthless exploitation of athletes, cribbing at examinations, 'Illegal' recruiting, a reckless disregard of their physical welfare, matriculation of unqualified students, demoralization of the athletes by the coach...
Witness No. 1 was General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, wartime boss of the bombing of Germany and first Chief of Staff of the separate Air Force. He began by reviewing the nation's reckless dismemberment of the world's greatest air force. In less than two postwar years, it had shrunk from 200 groups to 55, of. which only two were fit for combat. "In retrospect," said Spaatz, "you can see why Mr. Stalin felt pretty free to move around...
...American Freedom" has been publicized as a reply to Blanshard's theories. This is particularly so since O'Neill does not even consider Blanshard's most recent work, "Communism, Democracy, and Catholiv Power," thereby blinding himself to many arguments refuting his own case. Furthermore, many of Blanshard's reckless and emotional charges could have been refuted in a book discussing basic Catholic policies...
...President's reckless action was not simply a question of constitutional law, to be argued out in the courts. And more than a matter of dollars & cents for either side was at issue. Harry Truman, like all U.S. Chief Executives, must play two roles: President of all the people, and boss of a political party. In seizing the steel mills and violently taking sides, in unnecessarily stretching the vast powers of the presidency, Truman had acted primarily as a politician, not as a President...