Word: recklessly
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While its words were no less warlike, and it was still adamant in demanding British evacuation, the Egyptian government was acting with more restraint. It had obviously given up the reckless notion that its sorry army could push the trim, entrenched and reinforced British forces out of Suez; it was talking now of a long and gradual siege to squeeze them out. Hatreds so swiftly stirred, and so swiftly tamped down, could easily stir again; no one on either side wore a hopeful, happy face. But the West was determined to go ahead-albeit slowly, and despite Egypt...
...There are never any circumstances which justify the reckless imputation of treason or other moral guilt to individuals in or out of office...
With these new-and in Egypt's case reckless-demands, the West faced the possibility of a power vacuum in an area where Russia, since Czarist days, has been trying to expand. For the U.S., the situation recalled a parallel: Greece in 1947. Then, declining power had forced...
From Teheran came reports that Mossadeq himself would fly to the Council meeting, to argue, and probably to weep and faint, in defense of his government's reckless course. Possession (in the old saying, nine points of the law) was on his side...
Double Jeopardy. In Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs. Horace Monday was knocked down by a reckless driver, got up, was immediately knocked down again by the same driver...