Word: recklessly
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Accordingly, the conspirators determined to overthrow Hitler and expose his reckless gambling to the German people. "The leaders . . . were myself, General Erwin von Witzleben, commander of the Berlin garrison; Colonel General Ludwig Beck, my predecessor; Count von Helldorf, police president of Berlin; General von Brockdorf, head of the Potsdam garrison, and General Edwin von Stülpnagel. The commander in chief, von Brauchitsch, had been informed of the conspiracy...
...TIME [July 23] you refer to the Pan American Highway as a "reckless" project which was "abandoned.". . . In truth, the Army turned the work over to the Public Roads Administration in the fall of 1943, and that agency is continuing where the Army left the project. It is hoped that the highway will be opened for travel in 1947 on a tourist basis...
...Shanghai, a Chinese merchant went to his bank to draw out 800,000 Chinese dollars. In a city where a postage stamp costs $1,600, this seemed a routine transaction. But an unreasonable bank clerk refused to hand over more than $100,000, and that in $10 bills. The reckless merchant demanded his money, even if it had to be in 50? bills. He got it-$800,000 in small bills...
...Senate Committee grew inquisitive last week about another reckless Army wartime venture that (like Canol) blew up. The Committee's curiosity was aroused by the 905-mi. highway from Mexico to Panama, which Army engineers had figured would cost a mere $14,714,000. Undertaken with the approval of the General Staff and the Secretary of War, the road cost $42,715,591 before it was abandoned...
Eichelberger flies to his army's shows in an ancient B-17 fitted up for staff use. A man of sometimes reckless courage, he has decided lately to quit sticking his neck out so often-now that he has served 40 years in the Army and sees the war's end in sight. He wants to be sure to see Tokyo...