Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned to keep the boys in uniform because the New Deal is "afraid of the peace." By now, said Candidate Roosevelt, the Murray-George bill, the statements by OWM Boss Jimmy Byrnes and the War Department should have proved the falseness of this charge. "It seems a pity that reckless words, based on unauthoritative sources, should be used to mislead and weaken morale...
...Smith's philosophy was squarely at odds with the reckless public attitudes of his great years. He was devoutly religious, a family man who never went into nightclubs. The jazz age never won him away from songs like the Mulligan Guards. He toiled stubbornly for social reform. His life story had the old Horatio Alger plot. He was a poor East Side boy with an Irish gift for politics and people, who made good against tremendous odds...
Born for war, Mosby fared far less famously in peace. He served seven years as U.S. Consul at Hong Kong, returned to enjoy a modest success in the North as author and lecturer. But "the reckless abandon with which he attacked and galloped away as a Partisan could not be repeated as a citizen." Sunk in irascible senility, he died at Washington in 1916, aged 82, his glory all but forgotten...
...Fund, in effect, is merely a shock absorber. It can neither make rough roads smooth nor compensate for reckless driv ing. None of the delegates at Bretton Woods believed that it would solve the problem of getting payment for U.S. goods if the U.S. tries to export goods while it blocks imports by high tariffs. But believing that the roads are certain to be rough, the delegates felt there was all the more need for shock absorbers-to save the whole world from being jarred by every thank-you-ma'am that each nation hits...
...Moore never knew the wild, reckless, intoxicated efforts her friendship put them to. Dr. Aziz happily spent all his money, the resources of a lifetime, and risked his neck repeatedly, merely to take his English friends on a picnic. One of the most vividly imagined people in English fiction, normal and matter-of-fact as anybody's grandmother, Mrs. Moore set a large and strategic portion of the Empire on edge merely by being herself in an unbelievably different world...