Word: recklessness
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Adolf Hitler initially led his party in a reckless, illegal quest for power, culminating in the abortive Munich putsch in 1923. This failure brought about an important change in the Nazi strategy: henceforward they would seek power through the established, legal channels. Legalism does not rule out violence, as the SA's activities demonstrated (and the United States government continues to demonstrate), but further putsches were ruled out. During the next decade, the Nazis exploited the freedoms granted them and their tactics were rewarded with Hitler's constitutionally legal accession to the Chancellorship on 30 January 1933. History doesn...
Noting that the best of the tested seats absorbed only 15% of the energy of impact, the Michigan researchers suggested that snowmobile makers could reduce injury by significantly stiffening the materials used in their machines' cushions. To discourage reckless driving, some makers have already decided to downplay jumping in new advertising. But the most important step toward preventing injuries must be taken by the nation's some 1,600,000 snowmobilers, who can save spines by avoiding acrobatics...
...result Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) has announced a bill to call for a moratorium on reactor building and the creation of a national energy agency to oversee the AEC and stop reckless proliferation of atomic reactors...
...college be prosecuted when violent students on its campus force public officials to grant their demands? Last week New York's upstate Hobart College, the first U.S. college indicted for a criminal offense in the recent wave of campus disruption, stood trial for being "reckless" in just such a situation. The result may set a new legal limit on how far town can punish gown...
...match was much closer than the score indicates. Coleman found himself down, 2-1, in the second period, then Goldberg stretched the margin in the final minutes when Coleman, in an effort to score, became reckless and was taken down...