Word: recklessness
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...assumption is that large areas of South Vietnam are so firmly under the control of the Viet Cong that their capture is unfeasible. To avoid a reckless squandering of American lives and resources, the Administration, Galbraith argues, should limit its military action to securing "the maximum of security, tranquility and well-being in the limited but populous areas that we control." In this way Galbraith hopes to maintain a U.S. commitment in Vietnam with a minimum loss of life until a negotiated settlement is achieved...
...poisonously fascinating. Nowhere is this more apparent than when he woos and wins the Lady Anne over the coffin of her husband, whom he has murdered. A scene that seems logically inconceivable becomes psychologically astute as Richard, who has never wept, weeps; who has never knelt, kneels. With the reckless audacity of his passion, he converts Anne's grief and loathing into something like coquetry...
...Sullivan four years ago, the Supreme Court laid down tough constitutional limitations on libel recoveries by public officials. "A defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct," ruled the court, must be "made with 'actual malice'-that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." So much for public officials. But what of persons very much in the public eye, though not public officials? They too play an important part in shaping the course and creeds of the country. Should not the press be permitted to write about...
Better Lemmon. For such reckless abandon Crawford pays a price. In Black Comedy to date, he has suffered a whiplash neck, a gashed and infected back, four ankle sprains, eight torn ligaments, and splinters in all ten fingers. The other night, while fastening the neck brace he has to wear between performances, he was asked why he didn't put out a little less or stay home and play his favorite sport of Monopoly. Crawford, aghast at such an unprofessional thought, replied: "I wouldn't give up those laughs for anything. My injuries are pleasure bumps...
...must end the reckless pillaging of our land, the spoiling of our streams, and the destruction of our fish and wild life. We must pass this bill." So spoke West Virginia's Governor Hulett C. Smith earlier this year in urging his legislature to pass the toughest state law in the nation controlling strip mining for coal...