Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigation that seemed irresponsible. Many who once thought Martin Dies served a purpose -when there actually was a fellow traveler behind every other lamppost -became more & more sniffy about his methods, said the FBI could look after such things better. But fewer and cooler headlines made Martin Dies reckless. He made the mistake of colliding with Vice President Henry Wallace, and the encounter sent him fizzling away to Texas. There he announced his latest fantasy: he and a secretary would take secret spy testimony on his ranch, mail the results to Washington. Even this drew only a few newspaper lines...
...about over. There would be an end to the high times in the hostels in Kunming, to souvenir-buying where price was no object, to the calculatingly reckless battles with the Jap and the thundering return to the home fields when the battle was over. There would be an end to the fat checks from Major Greenlaw, the paymaster, and an end to the squadron parties where Major Greenlaw's glamorous White Russian wife presided...
WHAT ARE YEARS -Marianne Moore-Macmillan ($1.50). The most accomplished poetess in the English-speaking world today is Marianne Moore, a greying, mobile-faced, almost reckless spinster, born in St. Louis, Mo. in 1887. She graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1909. She was an assistant in the New York Public Library from 1921-25. In 1924 her book of poems Observations received the $2,000 Dial award; and for five uninterruptedly happy years thereafter she served on the learnedly esthetic Dial's editorial staff. Since the Dial's demise in 1929, Miss Moore has picked up a microscopic...
...committee has] all too often acted irresponsibly. . . Rash and reckless in a time of national danger. . . . The Dies Committee's definition of 'subversive' is so fantastic as to defy belief...
Japan stood at the edge of the world gambling table last week and watched to see if her reckless bet would...