Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he work for the committee. Fisher is now a leader of the Newton, Mass. Republican Club, but when he told Welch of the Lawyers Guild incident before the hearings began, said Welch, "I asked him to go back to Boston. Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad ... I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty, I will do so. I like to think I am a gentle...
...third and by far the preferable reaction is not acquiescence, nor is it the rabid, alarm-filled articles that have come from many sources. Possibly there was a need for the alarmist cries a few years ago, when the danger of reckless investigations had just become apparent. But too often the cries have turned to cliches; instead of pointing to danger, they minimize it by their tired aspect of "cry wolf...
Bait. In Hartford, Conn., when he heard that the police were holding a package with his name on it, Construction Worker Sam Peay hurried down to the police station, soon found his "package": a warrant for his arrest on a reckless-driving charge...
...issue with which he is particularly concerned as Attorney-General, Herbert Brownell's pitch to the people is clear: that the Democrats, though loyal, are too lax about Communists, the Midwesterners too reckless. He has never explicitly stated his theory of political success. But his actions make it quite clear; simply run a steamroller down the middle of the road...
This was a rather reckless position for McCarthy to take in view of his previous stand against the whole truth in the matter of the bogus letter. He had simply refused to name the officer who illegally gave him the letter, or any other informer. And in this refusal McCarthy had not brought forward any time-honored constitutional argument such as that out lined in the Brownell letter...