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...Rayburn let it be known that he was getting tired of the whole business. "If we cut a dollar below what [the Administration] wants," complained Mr. Sam, "it's like the heavens are going to fall. If we appropriate a dollar above their request, it's reckless and radical spending." The Democratic 86th, said Rayburn, is going to use its own judgment about spending "from here on out." And what that judgment may be will probably depend on the Easter pulse-taking...
Complaint. Though embarrassed because a fuss was being made, and because they were being addressed by a total stranger, a few murmured shy agreement. A reckless one or two applauded these strong words, never before uttered aloud on the Underground. Passengers who had docilely left the train discovered what was going on and re-entered like lions. The helpless guard fetched the station master, and the intimidated station master fetched a policeman, who blandly said he could do nothing unless the passengers were disorderly, and clearly they were not. For half an hour the embattled mutineers ignored threats and blandishments...
...hard to become President. We went through that with our favorite son, Harold Stassen. If the messages were indeed "secrets" on which hangs our nation's security, then our Senator's action in using them to propel himself into the limelight must be regarded as the most reckless folly...
Although, Lodge noted, Roosevelt saw "no conflict between righteousness and physical power," he was "neither a reckless warmonger, nor an overbearing imperialist...
Before the opening of her trial for reckless driving, 23-year-old French Novelist Françoise Sagan chugalugged a quick beer on the steps of the Palace of Justice in suburban Corbeil. The conscience of the go-hoyden-go set, she likes speeds around 100 m.p.h. Hurtling along near Corbeil in 1957, her Aston-Martin dived into a field and turned over, nearly killing the novelist and three friends...