Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reckless rambling and crazy adventure, this modern Viking's voyage to the New World might well be added to the Edda. After the Nazis invaded Norway in 1940, Willie Skrede, 19-year-old Oslo engineering apprentice, skipped to Sweden, hoping to make his way to the Norwegian air force then training in Canada...
Because of the last administration's "reckless fiscal policy," he said, the state is running some $500 million...
...change in the Senate rules. A fight on this point would have set Northern and Southern Democrats at each other's throats at the very outset of the 1955 session. The man who killed the plan was Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, once the noisiest and most reckless of the South-baiters. Humphrey urged his friends to "abandon the devil theory of politics," i.e., to recognize their Southern colleagues as reasonable, constructive men rather than as fiends from the pit. Humphrey prevailed, and after that it was easy going for the Democrats. Next day Georgia's Senator...
...Vegas, Nev., Actor John Barrymore Jr., 22, in an escapade reminiscent of some his madcap father used to pull, was nabbed for reckless driving while whooping it up on his second wedding anniversary. He gave the cops some grandiloquent lip, was promptly tossed into jail, let out shortly on $300 bail, next day pleaded innocent...
...Motorist Lawrence Colley explained that the reason he ran 40 ft. off the road, tore down a fence and rammed into a tree was that his girl was "holding me too tight" and "I couldn't hold her and the wheel, too," Judge John B. Scott dismissed a reckless driving charge, fined Colley only for driving without a license and without license plates, remarked, "I'm convinced it could have happened as he said...