Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Other U.S. Presidents were high-velocity types too. Ulysses S. Grant was fined for driving a horse-drawn carriage down M Street at an "unreasonable" rate of speed. Woodrow Wilson's driver scared the daylights out of newsmen by "reckless driving and excessive speed." In 1919, two reporters died in crashes while trying desperately to keep up with Wilson's car. In 1921, state cops clocked Warren G. Harding's car at 38 m.p.h. as it zipped through Hyattsville, Md. The speed limit was 15 m.p.h., but no arrest was made. After he left office, Harry Truman...
...RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT: Conduct that does not result in death or physical injury but creates a grave danger...
...good foreign aid measure through Congress this year"), Johnson asked for what he called "a great deal of money": $3.4 billion, or $15 billion less than President Kennedy asked last year. The request is about the same as last year's House authorization, which Kennedy termed "reckless" and "irresponsible." Congressional sources are predicting appropriations of as low as $2.5 billion and certainly not more than $3 billion...
What he did have was a concealed .22cal. automatic pistol, also unlicensed. Sonny, his arm no longer in a sling, was booked on the concealed-weapon and no-license charges, plus careless, reckless and speedy driving. As an ex-con, he also faces a possible felony rap for carrying a weapon, concealed or not. He shoulda never left that stool...
Coming from Zeffirelli, such talk is not to be taken lightly. He turned Romeo and Juliet into reckless, bopping teen-agers for the Old Vic three years ago, and Rome is still absorbed in his beat vision of Hamlet: "To be or not to be-what the hell?" says Zeffirelli's sulky prince (TIME, Dec. 27). And Falstaff turned out to be the perfect candidate for the young director's fine Italian hand. Falstaff's metamorphosis from boozy squire to oily seducer to triumphant rube is a fine argument in favor of the Fat Knight...