Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forum of Hate. The noisy debate of the McCarthy charges, she said, had reduced the Senate "to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity." Added Senator Smith: "I am not proud of the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this [Republican] side of the aisle. I am not proud of the obviously staged, undignified countercharges that have been attempted in retaliation...
Last Date tells the sobering, to-the-point story of Nick, high-school athlete and hot-rod addict, and his pretty girl friend Jeanne, who take Nick's souped-up jalopy for a reckless joy ride between dances, end up in a head-on collision which kills Nick, permanently disfigures Jeanne...
...stayed on in Indo-China for a while, as plain citizen Nguyen Vinh Thuy and Honorary Councilor to the Republic. Nobody had much use for him. He went abroad and flung himself into a reckless round of pleasure and sport...
...looked at the thing, the bigger the bill had grown-an additional $385 million for national defense, millions for creeks, dams and other sordid items of pork-barrel politics. It had become just too much to digest; besides, members had been getting letters from constituents demanding an end to reckless spending. With more courage than it had shown all year, the House put its jaws to work...
...This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-documented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose exploits (1820-40) helped to push the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and into the Far West. First-rate Americana (TIME, April...