Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hardest Blow. At the President's further urging, the Republican policy committee of the Senate brought out suggestions for changes in committee rules, designed to restrict McCarthy's reckless hunt for headlines. The changes-chiefly designed to prevent McCarthy from conducting one-man hearings-might not be enough to hold him in line, but they were important because they showed the attitude of the responsible Republican leadership. Sound, clear, public voice was given to that attitude by Vermont's Republican Ralph Flanders in a speech on the Senate floor (see Col. 2) and by Pres ident Eisenhower...
...Kingmaker. McCarthy's voice never faltered and Cohn's chin never quivered as they set off their counterbattery fire. But the reckless fury of their salvos proved that Joe McCarthy stood pinpointed as never before in his public life. Nobody was challenging his rights as a Senator. Nobody was attacking his license to hunt Communists. But the Army, in taking aim, could not have been more menacing. It had drawn a careful bead on the one-man subcommittee's real brain, the precocious, brilliant, arrogant young man whom McCarthy had come to regard as indispensable-"as indispensable...
...going rough. Protesting his endorsement by the district's Democratic Council, the South La Cienega Democratic Club withdrew from the parent group with the blast: "On the basis of [Roosevelt's] unique attitude toward the Seventh Commandment . . . we would rather not be a party to this reckless gambling of our present Democratic seat in Congress...
...became vulnerable to seasonal showers, and editors began to wear galoshes in the building, the more perspicacious Poonsters decided the roof was probably leaking. In an attempt to divert a disastrous spring flood, editors are pushing workers to their utmost. The original tiles are thrown at passers-by with reckless abandon, and now cold, dull slates are replacing the expensive Flemish tile roofing...
...Civil Aeronautics Board examiner lifted the private-pilot's license of Radio-TV's Arthur Godfrey for six months. The examiner found that Godfrey, flying "in a careless and reckless manner," deliberately buzzed the defenseless control tower at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport last January...