Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hope. There is one dimly hopeful side to the teen-age dope problem. Unlike older people, few teen-agers appear to take to drugs because of psychological troubles; youngsters usually start using narcotics either out of ignorance or the same reckless impulses which lead them to race hot rods. Though they are easier to wean, however, there are almost no facilities for taking care of them. On New York's Rikers Island, youngsters have to endure the horrors of a sudden "cold turkey" cure or get none at all. Once released, many go right back to drugs again...
...British side, some of the most barbed taunts and reproaches, as reckless as those of the McCormick press in the U.S., have come from London's New Statesman and Nation...
...height of the McCarthy hubbub last spring, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith rose on the floor of the Senate and directed some pointed remarks at her glowering colleague. "As a U.S. Senator," she said, "I am not proud of the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this side of the aisle." Her Declaration of Conscience, which six other G.O.P. liberals also signed (TIME, June 12), declared "it is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques...
...Bank of America filed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy in Hollywood against Producer Walter (Joan of Arc) Wanger, after it tried and failed to collect a loan of $178,476.43 advanced to help make Reckless Moment, a new picture starring James Mason and Wanger's wife, Joan Bennett...
From that close-up point of vantage, Biographer Manchester tries manfully to understand the contradictions that few understood when the beer-guzzling bad boy from Baltimore was an editor of the Smart Set and the American Mercury. Mencken wrote like a reckless revolutionary, but he was Tory to the core. His home life was as innocent as the average minister's, but he flayed the ministers, and the Bohemians claimed him as their own. In the 1920s, a word of praise from Mencken became a priceless treasure. When, as a joke, he suggested various politicians for the presidency, minor...