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July. In Memphis, Mrs. Louise McCormick, charged with reckless driving, told the court she thought at the time that her uncle was driving...
...committee didn't like the look of U.S. stockpiling, Britons liked it even less. Britain's complaint was not that the stockpile was too small, but that the U.S. had set out on a "reckless" stockpiling of everything that was scarce. "American buyers right up to the Pentagon," said one British government consultant, "have been rattling around Europe buying metals from every scrap heap...
...speech before Congress yesterday, Truman said that Russia is to blame for the aggression in Korea and the shaky state of world affairs. "The only explanation," he added, "is that these Chinese Communists have been misled or forced into their reckless attack--an act which can only bring tragedy to themselves--to further the imperialist designs of the Soviet Union...
...Shaw was a connoisseur of vanities and his collection is not wounding or disheartening-as it is, say, in smaller writers like Maugham-largely because Shaw is warmed by the fire of a natural affinity. Only a clumsiness of plot-Shaw was not a natural plot-maker, but a reckless piler on of the grotesque for satirical reasons-distorts the focus in which character is seen. The clear failures are his Cockneys; they are a Dubliner's caricatures of a character too subtle...
...Blade. In Memphis, careless Grass Cutter Lehman Barnes drove his power lawn mower into the street, ran into an automobile, was charged with reckless driving...