Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks this reckless expenditure of armor kept Moscow worried. The loss of Kharkov in similar circumstances last March was still fresh in everyone's mind; would Kharkov's fate befall Kiev? But by a prodigious effort, General Nikolai Vatutin halted the German advance. As in the summer, Russian artillery won its duel with German armor...
...Rotten . . . Reckless." Most recent case involved the Tribune and the Sun. For days, workers at Chicago's Studebaker aircraft-engine plant had been targets of a Tribune tirade, charging that they were loafers, malingerers and gamblers and that their union leaders were Communists deliberately sabotaging production...
...Publisher Silliman Evans finally pot ripsnorting mad. Sun men went out to investigate. The usually meek Sun thereupon came out with these headlines: LABOR ASSAILS TRIBUNE SMEAR and TRIBUNE LIES. . . . Said the Sun: The Tribune's campaign was a "rotten and reckless piece of work ... a giant fake" born of the "fevered delusions and prejudices" of the Tribune's "hate-filled" Publisher Robert R. McCormick...
...movement has been led by a determined and reckless group in the Episcopal Church who want to have their way at any cost...
...prison. But the worst "fooling" accident yet was at Palm Springs, Calif., last October, when nine passengers and the crew of three died in the crash of an American airliner clipped in flight by an Army Lockheed B34. CAB investigated the crash, reported that the "probable" cause was the "reckless and irresponsible conduct of Lieut. William N. Wilson in deliberately maneuvering a bomber in dangerous proximity to the airliner in an unjustifiable attempt to attract the attention of the first officer [copilot] of the latter plane." The Army promptly court-martialed Lieut. Wilson, just as promptly acquitted...