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Scott's defeat was never a matter of great regret, but Pierce's election was. The citizen-soldier pursued a reckless and aggressive foreign policy in an effort to wrest Cuba from Spain...
...plaintiffs, which include communities, individuals, and resort establishments in four counties charged that Howell "trespassed" on their lands "by artificially causing rain to fall upon the lands," and that he conducted his rainmaking activities "in so reckless and negligent a manner that excessive rains" caused "damage to the real and personal property owned by the plaintiff...
Combat & Psychology. After the war came an era of reckless barnstorming and adventuring. Editor Jensen has unaccountably omitted the most vivid snapshot of that era, William Faulkner's Death Drag. But he has snagged some other good things: Anne Lindbergh reminisces about a weird Alaskan flight; Antoine de Saint-Exupery describes a Patagonian cyclone; and James Thurber, in his wonderful story, The Greatest Man in the World, draws a satiric profile of Pal Smurch, the cocky little urchin who flew nonstop around the world-the adulation went to his head so badly that he had to be pushed...
Economy Size. In Canton, Ohio, after Harris Barret, a four-foot midget, rammed his midget-sized Crosley into a bus, Municipal Judge Gordon Burris fined him $10, only half the usual fee for reckless driving...
...political stature," said he, "has been sadly impaired by a succession of diplomatic blunders abroad and reckless spendthrift aims at home . . . There is a growing anxiety in the American home as disclosures reveal graft and corruption over a broad front in our public service. Those charged with its stewardship seem either apathetic, indifferent, or in seeming condonation . . . Despite failures in leadership, [the people] have it in their power ... to reject the socialist policies covertly and by devious means being forced upon us, to stamp out Communist influence which has played so ill-famed a part in the past misdirection...