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Word: recklessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Reckless Tranquility | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: This Is Inexcusable | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

Bright, but secret, Brother of mankind, Whom we imagined in the reckless void; Here in the broken bodies of our sons We see at last what was invisible- The remaining hope that animates the world, The brotherhood of all men, everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Beginning | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...London cabby is a very special Briton. For the reckless abandon of the Paris taximan, the invective flow of the Cairo driver, the proletarian dynamism of the Moscow hackman-who, even before the German invasion, drove his car as if it were a tank-the London cabby substitutes a shatterproof Cockney calm. Last week that calm was somewhat ruffled. The London cabby had his back up. He had decided to enter politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: To Parliament! | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...surrender." But veterans popped up again in strange places, such as the Brandenburg Canoe Club and the Association of Prussian Stamp Collectors. Nazi leaders vanished. The result of the long-awaited trial of German war criminals was: five Germans convicted of rape, four of cruelty to animals, five of reckless driving in congested areas. Countries ravaged by Hitler demanded the return of their looted property. They got it promptly: Austria received 198,371 Tyrolean hats, Russia got 16 Ukrainian ikons, France 1,835 empty champagne bottles and a heap of silk stockings full of runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Preposterous Preview | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

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