Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aviation's wartime boom has brought an alarming growth of reckless flying-some of it by pilots too young to know better, some by veterans too skilled to give a damn. So long as a flyer lets off steam somewhere by himself, with plenty of room, the possible results are of primary interest only to his commander, the crash-wagon crew and the next...
...Convict Water C. Huff, 21, serving a year for reckless driving, testified: "I came here with two other boys and after Captain Clay took off my handcuffs ... he busted me in the mouth with his fist and my teeth are loose now. Big Jim kicked us and put two picks on us. Captain Clay . . . then took us back to the little house in front of the pigpen and beat me up. He made me bend over the bed and he let loose. ... I was so sore I had to lay on my stomach. . . . The beating was on Sunday...
...This was not a race riot. There was no conflict between groups of our citizens. What happened was the thoughtless, criminal acts of hoodlums, reckless, irresponsible people. Shame has come to our city, and sorrow...
Domestic Scene. In Chicago, Colton Ankebrant, testifying in a reckless-driving case ten days after a car had crashed into his house, replied to the judge's query on the car's whereabouts: "Oh, it's still in the parlor. But it doesn't bother us much...
...staggering, his speech slurred and he was quite talkative. His eyes and pupils were dilated. He admitted having been drinking." Both papers clamored for justice; Beverly Hills' Police Chief C. H. Anderson was quoted: "We are determined to protect the streets of this community against intoxicated and reckless drivers. The Mankiewicz case seems like a flagrant one, and we are determined that it shall be justly handled...