Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...