Word: reckless
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...reckless, ill-informed assaults- based almost exclusively upon his abysmal ignorance of the facts and his own prejudice-are quite transparent to those familiar with the evidence...
...1990s as many as 50 countries may belong to the nuclear club, there is also a real possibility of atomic war-directed, most probably, by one small, adventurous state against another of the same kind: "While the balance of terror is a great deterrent to conservative powers, to a reckless power the balance of terror may look like an opportunity or shield behind which it can get away with a good deal." In the event of nuclear war between two major powers-not necessarily involving the U.S. or Russia-the world is likely to survive. And the victor nation...
...punks" and squelched Arthur Godfrey with the line, "By the way, what does he do now?" (He hosts a CBS Radio morning show.) During a contract dispute with Frank Sinatra some years ago, Sullivan took a full-page ad in Variety to lambaste the singer for "false and reckless charges"; Frankie countered with his own ad calling Sullivan "sick, sick, sick." Such is his relative benignity that the worst he can say for his old competitor Jack Paar is that he is a "thoroughly no-good son of a bitch. That's spelled...
...Petrocelli cupped a feeble pop-up for the final out, the crowd spilled on-to the field. The Fall had begun. It was a reckless, selfish attempt to prolong that wild earlier feeling. But delirium turned to confusion, and the unskilled, inexperienced teenagers seized on greed to disguise dismay. Love became violence. They tore at Lonborg's uniform, dug their fingers into the mound, striped the bases, raped the scoreboard...
...driven our feelings so high, so near certainty. The fall from those expectations could be so great. One feared for us. As a man he had no right to be so reckless...