Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly before his death Brigadier General Hugh ("Iron Pants") Johnson made a prophecy about his friend Major General George Smith ("Old Blood and Guts") Patton Jr.: "Critics say he is reckless and impetuous. That's what was said at West Point. He says he is going to command an army. My bet is on Georgie Patton." Georgie Patton became a lieutenant general a fortnight ago. Last week he took command of the central sector in Tunisia, where U.S. troops got an ignominious licking a month ago. Patton celebrated his appointment by advancing...
...After the Stalingrad defeat, Hitler's personal popularity for the first time spiraled downward with Nazi Party prestige. His promise of victory at Stalingrad was too recent and too wrong for even propaganda-hammered Germans to forget; Germans said that Hitler's appointment of reckless "Party Generals" assured the Stalingrad catastrophe...
...time when the drive for repeal of the Wagner Act is already well under way, a small section of labor has been so reckless as to draw public condemnation upon the entire industrial organization movement. The first in months to violate labor's anti-strike pledge, the union is no run-of-the-mill union, but rather John L. Lewis' own United Mine Workers. This is not the usual workers vs. management strike; instead it is a rank and file revolt against autocratic union leadership which railroaded through the recent dues increase...
...stand, snapping the chords from the orchestra as a Mephistopheles would crack a whip over his minions, and the two played into each other's hands with a deviltry beyond words. Hah! The intrepidity, the dash, the saber and spur of it, the wild exhilaration, the reckless mastery of the whole business...
...Thornton Wilder; produced by Michael Myerberg). In Our Town Thornton Wilder abolished space and expanded Main Street into the universe. In The Skin of Our Teeth he has annihilated time and turned the Antrobus family of Excelsior, N.J. into the story of mankind. But where Our Town, despite its reckless stagecraft, was a warm and human allegory nourished with cracker-barrel wisdom, The Skin of Our Teeth is a cockeyed and impudent vaudeville littered with asides and swarming with premeditated anachronisms. Dinosaurs collide with bingo; the Muses jostle the microphone...