Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brief Encounter. In Hagerstown, Md., Deputy Sheriff Robert Miller and City Policeman Harry Frush surveyed the scene of the crash, handed each other tickets for reckless driving...
...appropriating for TVA, Congress had refused to include $4,000,000 for a steam generator to backstop TVA's water power in dry seasons. "A reckless and irresponsible decision," said the President, pointing out that TVA supplies power for the Oak Ridge atomic plant. He signed the bill to extend the terms of AEC commissioners for two years, but declared that "the refusal of the Republican leadership to put the public interest first. . . invests the atomic energy program with an aura of uncertainty and partisan politics." (He did not recall that he had set Republican teeth on edge...
...thinks is becoming more & more authoritarian. "I dread a world state run by biologists and economists ... by whom no life would be tolerated that didn't contribute to an economic purpose . . . Art can offer the surest escape from the tedium of threatening totalitarianism. It mustn't be reckless, freakish, fantastic, but must console and ennoble...
...more Laski indulges his distaste for the American businessman, the more reckless he grows in boosting the merits of a collective economy and in minimizing its dangers. His bland references to the U.S.S.R. as "the great experiment" which threatens free enterprise with "successful socialism" are likely to chill the spines of many who otherwise might hear his opinions with respect...
Baptism. In Oklahoma City, Lawrence T. Surginger was fined $6 for reckless driving while taking his driver's test...