Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Case for-. It was on this record in Asia and in Europe that Dean Acheson deserved to be judged. The debate roused considered and telling criticisms of his policy; it was also complicated by reckless, demagogic assaults from Senator Joe McCarthy, which were a national disgrace...
July. In Memphis, Mrs. Louise McCormick, charged with reckless driving, told the court she thought at the time that her uncle was driving...
...shrewish scolding for headlong and over-energetic moves against Communism. Last week West European opinion swung around 180°; it showed dismay because some prominent Americans suggested that the U.S. reduce its world commitments. Europeans who were warning one day against too close an association with the reckless U.S. next day found themselves appalled by the threat of American "isolationism...
...committee didn't like the look of U.S. stockpiling, Britons liked it even less. Britain's complaint was not that the stockpile was too small, but that the U.S. had set out on a "reckless" stockpiling of everything that was scarce. "American buyers right up to the Pentagon," said one British government consultant, "have been rattling around Europe buying metals from every scrap heap...
...speech before Congress yesterday, Truman said that Russia is to blame for the aggression in Korea and the shaky state of world affairs. "The only explanation," he added, "is that these Chinese Communists have been misled or forced into their reckless attack--an act which can only bring tragedy to themselves--to further the imperialist designs of the Soviet Union...