Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor. But Byrd's old friends of both parties jumped in to help cut the freshman down to size. "I know of no more valuable committee that has functioned in this body since I have been a member," declared Georgia's veteran Walter George. "Amazing and reckless charges," said Mississippi's John Stennis. Michigan's Republican Homer Ferguson pointed out that Byrd's committee was so respected by the G.O.P. that Byrd had been allowed to stay on as chairman even in the Republican-controlled 80th Congress. Half a dozen others rose to add their...
With the U.S. Government running into the red at the rate of $10,000 a minute, gaunt, grey Economist Edwin G. Nourse last week issued a stern warning. Said President Truman's former chief economic adviser: the Administration's reckless spending under its "pie in the sky" philosophy would, unless checked by tough-minded slashes, lead to "strain and possible breakdown" of the U.S. economy...
...possible. But it needs allies-clean or dirty, just as Britain and the U.S. needed reactionary and tyrannical Russia against Hitler. U.S. opinion tends to whitewash some allies (as it whitewashed Russia in 1941-45) and to scold ineffectually at others (e.g., China). Either by wishful whitewashing or reckless scolding, the U.S. can weaken the anti-Soviet front and encourage Soviet aggression...
...Captain Erick Rios Bridoux, Bolivian airman, was accused by the Civil Aeronautics Administration of flying in a "careless and reckless manner" and blamed for the Nov. 1 air collision which killed 55 passengers of an Eastern Air Lines DC-4 at Washington National Airport. The CAA, however, has no power to fix final responsibility; that is the job of the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...posturings might have been conceived by Moliére. It is also peopled by such types as Fletcher Rabbit, whose "mother was a suffragette, and who consequently takes a serious, rather cautious point of view and is a bit of a bore"; Beulah Witch, who was arrested for reckless broomstick driving on Hallowe'en; Cecil Bill, a hysteric in a frightwig; Colonel Cracky ("from the Old South, suh"); Ophelia Ooglepuss and Clara...