Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staggered into the sheriff's station after working the fire lines and said that they could not get eye drops to ease their smoke irritation. Sheriffs arrested one longhaired man in front of his endangered house, where he had gone to rescue his mother. He was booked for reckless driving and resisting arrest, and was jailed for two days before charges were dismissed...
What set last week's violence apart from similar assaults on police was the community's response. Law-abiding residents of Glenville had been seeking better protection from hoodlums and reckless drivers, realizing that blacks rather than whites are the most frequent victims of ghetto crime. Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, who is black, capitalized on this realization in a televised appeal to Glenville: "You cannot have this kind of violence and acts against police while at the same time a neighborhood is crying out for more law enforcement. You can't have it both ways...
...Pursuit of Loneliness, frequently imaginative in its observations, often weak in its catch-all subjectivity, is nonetheless a vivid critique of a society increasingly reckless in its push toward lonely self- destruction...
...tour of Moscow nightspots, ending up at the Slavyansky Bazar, a haunt of young Russians, where he danced exuberantly with bemused Russian girls. Certainly he represents a new school of diplomacy, whose members believe in direct and candid contact. To traditionalists he may appear frivolous, if not downright reckless. By classic standards, Scheel would certainly seem too imprecise and incautious to negotiate treaties on which depend the fate of nations. The London Financial Times summarily dismissed him last fall as "an attractive and amusing man who cannot help looking lightweight...
...around." Apprehensive local officials, backed by court orders, had prevented some of the biggest names in the world of rock-Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone-from performing at the Powder Ridge Ski area near Middlefield, Conn. Undaunted, some 20,000 youngsters turned the reckless affair into a cheerily noisy "people festival...