Word: reckless
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...more casualties. In an attack the quality of the troops is the critical factor. Poorly trained, poorly led troops often do not . . . attack against any opposition, and when they do, they take heavy casualties. Some things never change and this is one of them. Reckless bravery does not help much, as it just gets more attackers killed
...years in charge of the University had never seen so many insubordinate actions as in the preceeding four years. Nor was it a surprise to the class itself, bitterly divided into two factions--the majority, which consistently ignored the rules of college decorum with more-than-reckless abandon, and "the Blacks," a minority of 15 or so students who constantly informed on their classmates' antics...
From their entrance on August 27, 1819 until their ill-fated commencement, the class of 1823 gave the College a rowdy and reckless spirit beyond the control of President Kirkland and his faculty, and a violent split which led to a battle forever after referred to as the "Great Rebellion...
...senior year of the class of 1823 brought to a climax their animosity, their pranks and their reckless insubordination. The "Blacks" continued to inform on these antics, and the rest of the class harrassed and vexed this moralistic minority. On March 10, 1823, "A large shower bath belonging to Dorr [a "Black"] was taken from the fourth story of Stoughton, and having been filled with wood, etc. was burnt at midnight in the middle of the College Yard in commemoration of the second anniversary of the Blacklist...
...have to be reckless but you can't leave yourself to complete abandon," Randall said. "I learned that it's better to vault cautiously than act to vault...