Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another with exorbitant tariff walls and injure the cause of peace by their own petty jealousies. Our stand-offish attitude has split the solidarity of those nations working for peace and the respect of international law, while it has also encouraged the marauding lawless powers to grow increasingly reckless in their violations of treaties and the principles of humanity...
Inviting imprisonment by a reckless shot at the Fuhrer the Bishop declared: "Great men can be spoiled by too much worship and adulation and made incompetent to fulfill the aims of statesmanship. No nation should seek to elevate a faithful son of the Fatherland to the throne...
...Westfield, Mass., Jasper T. Dunham, 90, was hauled into court on a charge of reckless driving. The judge asked him whether he didn't think he was too old to drive. Indignantly replied Nonagenarian Dunham: ''When I went to school 1 learned there was always a lot of exceptions to every rule, and in this case I'm one of them...
...parked inconspicuously while clocking the cars over measured distances and noting their license plates, offered several explanations for these differences: either Connecticut people went slow because they knew they would get no preferential treatment if caught speeding, or the Midwesterners, or the outstate people went fast because of the "recklessness of the vacation spirit," or because "the fastest and most reckless drivers of any community . . . take the longest trips." The Bureau also found that cars in which the driver is alone travel faster than those with passengers...
...melodrama. In quest of legendary diamonds encased in Africa's jagged Drakensberg Mountains go doughty Allan Quartermain (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), Kathy O'Brien (Anna Lee), Captain Good (Roland Young), Sir Henry Curtis (John Loder) and Umbopa (Paul Robeson), a burly, black Zulu. On the desert trek the reckless fL'e almost perish from thirst. In the mountains they are tolerated by Kukuana savages only because the superstitious blacks believe bemonocled Captain Good to be a white god. Before they attain the mines he is required to demonstrate white magic in the form of an opportunity-scheduled eclipse...