Word: recklessly
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...grandfather, bearded, cigar-mauling, top-hatted Oscar I, the most spectacular impresario of his time, who made the name Hammerstein a near-synonym for Broadway. Oscar I was said to have occupied more newspaper space during his heyday than any other American except Theodore Roosevelt. A reckless and rambunctious man, Oscar I made millions in vaudeville and operetta, lost them on grand opera. "The word opera," says Oscar II, "was a nightmare to everyone in the family." Unlike his other grandfather (who used to take little Oscar on rambles and give him whiskey punch before breakfast and Guinness' Stout...
Nonsense! . . . The Russians and the Americans are working together, and intend to work together. It is nothing less than reckless sabotage to suggest that the Russians are not honest on their side, and that the attempt is doomed to failure...
...exhibited the same qualities that had distinguished his military career. In his own view he fought for the people and the Union as before he had battled for the Republic." He left a profound impress on the office of the Presidency, but it was one of his own reckless and insurgent personality, not that of his incidental profession...
...there was, if not political peace, a political hush. Even in Greece the civil war had been halted by a truce (see below). Elsewhere there were no mass demonstrations, no riots in the streets. No crowds baited the police or shouted threateningly under government windows. What had caused this reckless tranquility? TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder, following the Allied forces as they slowly pushed back the Belgian bulge, reported one reason...
...Attorney General did not care to discuss all these "reckless and unfounded statements," and Franklin Roosevelt found that the Littell statement substantiated Mr. Biddle's charge of insubordination. The President wrote: "This is inexcusable; and under the circumstances my only alternative is to remove him from office, which I have done today...