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Word: reckless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When reckless college students tied chickens to goalposts...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: A Fan's Gear: Octopiand Tennis Balls | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...extremely emotional. People are dumping stocks with reckless abandon. As trite as it may sound, the market is going down because it's going down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street's October Massacre | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...that list, "having an uncanny sense of timing." While panicky investors in lower Manhattan spent Monday jettisoning their stocks like sandbags in a sinking hot-air balloon, the owner of the New York Yankees in the South Bronx reshuffled his management with characteristically reckless impatience...

Author: By Steven L. Ascher, | Title: Please, George, Please | 10/22/1987 | See Source »

...numbers prove that Manhattan's reckless-bike-riding problem is not trivial. Even so, the ire stirred by the bikers is striking. Some argue (not too convincingly) that the antipathy toward messengers, who are mostly black, is racially motivated. But that does not explain the shouts of anger directed at white speed demons by startled white pedestrians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scaring The Public to Death | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...course, television shows some laughably awful films itself, and Amazon Women offers three of them. One is a 1930s government scare film, a la Reefer Madness, called "Reckless Youth," in which "Mary Brown" (Carrie Fisher) is a corrupted innocent who contracts "a SOCIAL DISEASE!" Another is "Son of the Invisible Man," in which the original's son (Ed Begley Jr.) walks around naked in the mistaken belief that he, too, is invisible...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Amazing Amazons | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

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