Word: recklessly
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...mistaken for anything but what it was: a deliberate endorsement of Ohio's Republican Senator Robert Taft for the presidency. In case there was any doubt about it, MacArthur quickly dispelled it with a blast at "our political and military leaders" who, after World War II, "dissipated with reckless haste that predominant military power which was the key to the situation." Notable among those leaders: General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...Texas City, Texas, when 150 curious citizens turned out to see the trial of Houston's wealthy Oilman Glenn McCarthy, charged with reckless driving, the justice of the peace ordered the hearing moved to the city hall auditorium. There, in festive fashion, the spectators drank pop, rolled the bottles down the aisle, heard the justice fine McCarthy $5 plus costs. The sting was poulticed later by inviting the defendant to attend Texas City's fair next week. McCarthy not only agreed to come, but said he would lead the parade, riding on a Palomino pony...
...house. It was early evening, half-dusk. The householder saw a shadowy figure through the frosted glass panes of the front door, seized a rifle, and fired. The girl was killed. An early morning milkman suffered the same fate not long after. There was some tutting about too reckless use of firearms, but that...
...unrelieved picture the refugees paint-of an arrogant, hard-drinking, whoring youth-Vasily Iosifovich Stalin is obviously something more than that. A prime product of his environment, he is shrewd, tough and fanatic. As a pilot and commander, he showed some of the skill, high spirit and reckless abandon that Russia brought against the Nazis. He lives for Communism, displays nothing but hatred for the world outside, and little knowledge of it. He believes that Russia and the Red air force are invincible. He is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the City of Moscow...
...strapped for cash. The old man swallowed his pride, and turned over financial control of his overextended empire to a board of regents headed by Manhattan Lawyer Clarence Shearn and Broker John W. Hanes, former Under Secretary of the Treasury. For Hearst himself, it meant a cut in his reckless spending; for his crazy-quilt domain it meant consolidations, ruthless budget cuts. One night in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, Marion Davies did her bit: she calmly wrote out a check for $1,000,000 and handed it across a table to W.R. Choking, Hearst told her: "Some day, Marion...