Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Based on that expectation of seasonal comeback, the Administration for weeks had fought for a wait-and-see period before giving in to increasing demands for drastic, perhaps reckless, action against recession. March unemployment figures, President Dwight Eisenhower assured the nation in a special economic message last Feb. 12, should improve. Why? The answer: Spring...
This fact was very much in the President's mind as he fended off demands for reckless action to halt the downturn by any means, at any cost. Labor, business, state and local governments, all were calling for action from Washington, and doing very little on their own to help fight the recession. Symbolizing the panic pressures, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and other top labor leaders handed the President a damn-the-deficits plan that included just about everything except an offer to join with management in a hold-down on wages...
...leave his revolt and dissent-torn country for a prolonged rest. Both he and the country needed it. Sukarno, in a wild bid to whip up enthusiasm for Indonesia's claim to Dutch New Guinea, has brought the country's economy almost to a standstill with his reckless and illegal seizures of Dutch commercial and agricultural properties. Whether the country's well-organized Communist Party may make a bid for power, or whether it will be effectively countered by the anti-Communist officers of the army, is still in doubt...
Indonesia's usually cocky President Sukarno seemed tired, nervous and uncertain. While his government's reckless campaign to seize The Netherlands' vast commercial holdings continued apace, Sukarno made his rounds screened by a phalanx of bodyguards, armored cars and secret servicemen. In Surabaya, Sukarno exhorted a rally of 100,000 Indonesians to prepare for hard times. "We must dare!" he cried. "We must start from the bottom. In the next few years we may be short of food, short of clothing." But Sukarno's flamboyance was gone, his melodramatics unconvincing. His audience listened, unmoved...
...Moon. In Elko, Nev., Millard Dick. 38. smashed his car into the side of a truck, protested the charge of reckless driving because "I know I had the right of way-the light was blue...