Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that issue. "There is a sense of futility about the Marines being sitting ducks. Most people seem to look at the Grenada invasion as being justified." Some Democrats predicted that the tragedy in Lebanon, along with the invasion of Grenada, might eventually add to public worries that Reagan is reckless with the use of military force. "The combination of Beirut and Grenada has hurt the President in Wisconsin," said Matthew Flynn, chairman of the state's Democratic Party. "He's had this nice-guy image. But there's a new feeling that the brakes are no longer...
Face red with fury, Kennedy shouted: "I am appalled at this attempt to misappropriate the memory of my brother[s] . . . If Robert Kennedy were alive today, he would be the first person to say that Hoover's reckless campaign against Martin Luther King was a shame and a blot on American history...
...real adventures of our world are those of the mind: the struggle to put a man on the moon or to find a cure for cancer. The lone researcher is the real hero. Reckless risk takers perform a few extraordinary feats of jumping or climbing and then spend the rest of their lives talking about them in bars. The feats of scientists or anyone concerned with the human dilemma live on indefinitely...
...lump the great mountaineer Reinhold Messner together with reckless rappellers and people who pogo off El Capitan insults the entire climbing community...
...Reagan Administration's willingness to send men and matériel around the world is hardly surprising. It is consistent with the President's starkly anti-Communist world view. And while his policy pronouncements sometimes seem awkward or belligerent, the President's deployments have not been reckless. Direct confrontation with the Soviets has been avoided, and U.S. casualties (six killed in Lebanon, one in El Salvador) have been...