Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hurried up. They began firing pistols and carbines. Craig scuttled around inside the house like a caged animal, firing back in vicious bursts-now from the front of the house, now from the side, now from the back. Glass smashed and tinkled, neighborhood women screamed, bullets hummed and a reckless crowd of 10,000 people began jamming into the street. New police reinforcements arrived, among them the force's top brass. Fire trucks rumbled into the street and turned huge searchlights on Craig's bullet-riddled fortress...
...often was, the question was ridiculous. Director Hoover's G-men were not a strong-arm squad of club-swinging blackshirts; nobody was fed castor oil, or taken off in the middle of the night to be liquidated. Certainly the FBI could not be accused of making reckless arrests...
Angry Man. During the negotiations, the radio industry was casting nervous glances over its shoulder toward Washington. Colorado's Ed Johnson, chairman of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, stormed that the radio plans of "certain large distillers" were "vicious" and "reckless," and called the wavering radiomen "stupid." The Federal Communications Commission, which has indirect power to keep radio in line, reacted more mildly. FCC Chairman Wayne Coy was in Europe, and Commissioner-in-Charge Paul A. Walker would admit only that he had received some complaints against giveaway shows and other radio practices which he declined...
...Radio), a fine piece of action-fantasy, provides the most stupendous spectacle of simian shenanigans since King Kong defied attacking airplanes from the mooring mast of the Empire State Building (1933). Its trick photography is admirable, its whopping implausibility almost impeccable. Best of all, it is such a gigantic, reckless spoof, that it is practically irresistible...
Discount. In Rochester, N.H., when Edward A. Bruce was asked how he pleaded to a charge of reckless driving, he told the judge: "About 50-50," got a $50 fine with 50% suspended...