Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARSHALL: "It is very difficult to win on a defensive basis [but] it is very reckless when you are under strength to plunge in on an aggressive offensive procedure. There have been some notable defensive campaigns in history which have ended in an offensive and decisive action . . . Notably, one was the peninsula campaign under Wellington . . . His campaign was measured in years ... In the end, he really played a leading part in the complete upset of the Napoleonic regime. He had to start on a defensive basis. He had no other choice. We have had to start on a defensive basis...
...March, Arias made a reckless grab for control of the independent Panama Trust Co. (TIME, March 19). The grab failed, but the bank was wrecked and had to close its doors. A fortnight ago, Ar-nulfo's opponents struck back by working up a run on the Government Savings Bank. This dose of his own medicine got Arnulfo mad. He suddenly moved to revoke the 1946 constitution and reinstate his own 1941 constitution, which gave the President broader powers and a longer term of office (six years instead of four...
...dissipated some $1.2 billion in foreign exchange that Argentina had piled up during World War II. Some of it went to buy the British-owned railways and the U.S.-owned telephone system and to build up a creditable merchant marine. But millions went down the drain in a reckless buying spree to round up foreign equipment for the President's grandiose five-year industrialization plan. On top of that, IAPI, the state trading agency, demanded such extortionate prices for Argentine products that the country lost a large part of its foreign market. Grafting and fumbling bureaucrats came close...
MACARTHUR: "It would be utterly reckless and foolish for the U.S. to even consider...
...reckless bravery (he was twice wounded, once gassed) won him 13 medals (plus seven citations and 24 foreign decorations), a brigadier general's star and, eventually, command of the division. Back in the U.S., he became superintendent of West Point (at 39), history's youngest Chief of Staff (at 50). In 1932, he incurred political unpopularity by personally commanding, under Herbert Hoover's orders, the troops which drove the veterans' Bonus Army from Washington's Anacostia Flats...