Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbolizes Dartmouth's reckless, bruising, headline-hunting attack, it is beefy defenseman George Pulliam. He also represents its weakness, if that's what you want to call it. Frequently, like a steam engine, the Indians do not function at peak efficiency, because their one and two-man attacks leave a lot of men standing around and their insistence on taking the puck up themselves rather than passing it up front consumes precious seconds...
True enough, the reckless drivers come in for their share of the blame. A speeding, hit-and-run car caused the principal accident a while back, and metropolitan speed limits are not universally observed. But the number of motorists who will stop for nothing short of the Square is small compared to the students who meander with the intention of crossing, but without the patience to be careful. Drivers who aim for pedestrians are negligible compared with the pedestrians who bluff any car that strikes their fancy-before it strikes their instep. Often the bluffer forces the car to swerve...
George A. Kublin of the Kansas City Board of Trade estimated that the carry-over on next July 1 would be only 130,000,000 bushels. (The Department of Agriculture put it at 146,000,000.) "Anything smaller than a 235,000,000-bushel carry-over," Kublin warned, "is reckless...
...More reckless spirits favor a type of poker known as "the fiery cross." No hand here comes cheaper than a flush, which generally gets flushed where it belongs. With practically every card in the deck wild, so are the players, who also profess proficiency in the double cut and the under-arm shift...
...outlining the purposes and advantages of NSA. What actually confronted students was a combination of the two, both under the auspices of the Council, and both phrased in such a way as to insinuate that there was but one choice. NSA is too worthy a project to receive such reckless and unpolitic treatment, especially when it involves crucial undergraduate support...