Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memoir Papa Hemingway, had successfully sued Doubleday & Co. for publishing Spanish Author José Luis Castillo-Puche's opinion in yet another Hemingway memoir that Hotchner was a "toady," a "hypocrite" and an "exploiter" of Hemingway's friendship. But because Hotchner and his lawyers failed to prove "reckless disregard for the truth" on the part of Doubleday, Judge Lumbard reversed the pro-Hotchner decision. Publishers, the judge continued, cannot self-censor every opinion expressed in their books; if they did, free speech would vanish. Hotchner, in Paris to write another book, greeted the news of the court...
...first book (and the new volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets), Greek-born Olga Broumas, 27, displays both reckless energy and passion. Her subject is sexual love between women, and her allusions range from the classical goddesses through fairytale heroines to such contemporary poets as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. The poems portray lesbianism as a brave new world, a terrain that women have been tricked (by themselves and men) into avoiding. To the uncertain, Broumas offers a refuge in eroticism...
British Leyland is a microcosm of British industry's illnesses, including a reckless and desperate attitude of the workers toward their own company's welfare. "I can't pay my bills now," said one toolmaker. "So what difference does it make if I go on strike...
...gung-ho Crimson quintet played with reckless abandon last night at the IAB to pull off a come-from-behind 73-71 overtime victory over the Columbia Lions...
...quintessential master of a game that would no longer be familiar to present-day players. He was a slapdash hitter who careened along the basepaths and the endless outfields of the old ballparks with reckless abandon. He had an uncanny sense of the strike zone and surprising power for a man who stood only 5 ft., 4 in. tall...