Word: recklessly
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...Marines just a year ago; he was one of those landed on Gavutu Island in the Solomons. His tank proceeded up the beach that day in advance of the infantry, spied a Jap pillbox, stopped to fire. Out of a bomb shelter near by poured a horde of reckless, howling Japs. They swarmed over the tank, jammed a crowbar in the tank-track...
...Duke" was hauling furniture around a set for Born Reckless when Director Raoul Walsh spotted him, ordered him for god's sake not to cut his hair, which had grown shaggy at the nape. Then "Duke" was renamed John Wayne, pushed ahead of some 82 other candidates for the juvenile lead in The Big Trail. He did very nicely with the part. Later he made a personal-appearance tour on which, to his embarrassment, he was required to keep his hillbilly hair in a rich fringe over his collar...
...decision was alread working minor wonders. Everything was quiet around Alcoa's Cleveland plant and production breezed along. But far more important was the fact that businessmen all over the U.S. gave a sigh of relief-if WLB sticks to its decision the day of reckless, hell-raising, rabble-rousing labor leaders is over. To a nation fighting for its life, that is as it should...
...investigation that seemed irresponsible. Many who once thought Martin Dies served a purpose -when there actually was a fellow traveler behind every other lamppost -became more & more sniffy about his methods, said the FBI could look after such things better. But fewer and cooler headlines made Martin Dies reckless. He made the mistake of colliding with Vice President Henry Wallace, and the encounter sent him fizzling away to Texas. There he announced his latest fantasy: he and a secretary would take secret spy testimony on his ranch, mail the results to Washington. Even this drew only a few newspaper lines...
...about over. There would be an end to the high times in the hostels in Kunming, to souvenir-buying where price was no object, to the calculatingly reckless battles with the Jap and the thundering return to the home fields when the battle was over. There would be an end to the fat checks from Major Greenlaw, the paymaster, and an end to the squadron parties where Major Greenlaw's glamorous White Russian wife presided...