Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lines on the faces suggest road maps leading into unknown territory but pursued in reckless good faith. The eyes are bright, the chins are raised in cheerful pugnaciousness, the mouths always on the verge of a smile. These folks seem as jolly as TV-commercial grandparents, yet eager to raise hell one more time. Most of them were active members of the American Communist Party in the days when Stalin was Uncle Joe and the choice looked clear between fascism and Communism. Some party stalwarts helped organize labor unions. Others fought for civil rights in an age when the color...
Iran and Iraq have little to be proud of in their conduct of the 42-month-old war in the Persian Gulf. Iraq shoulders the blame for starting it all, invading Iran in a reckless attempt to seize some long-disputed border territory from the new and untried revolutionary government of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Iran, having repulsed the invasion, has taken the war into Iraq in hopes of forcing the downfall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the creation in Baghdad of an Islamic republic modeled on Iran's own. Iran has routinely executed large numbers of Iraqi...
...hailed the Supreme Court's ruling as a triumph for freedom of expression. The Justices in effect shifted the burden of proof from publishers to plaintiffs, and required that public officials must prove that the journalists either knew the disputed stories were false or acted in "reckless disregard" of the truth. For several years, it seemed all but impossible for a prominent person to bring a successful libel suit; journalists were emboldened to enterprising, at times overly aggressive, reportage. In the past few years, however, Supreme Court rulings have nibbled away at the privileges afforded by Times vs. Sullivan...
Upperclass players vouched for the strength of the freshman team. "It was a crushing loss for the Kirkland house team. We were strongly outcoached. The reckless abandon of the freshman play destroyed our system," commented a battered Kirkland Coach Gus Grant...
...create nuclear waste, but we do not know how to deactivate it. Until we do, the continued production of poison trash is not merely a threat to generations yet unborn but a reckless endangerment of unimaginable proportions...