Word: recklessness
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...Chinese, Khrushchev hinted, are merely envious of Russian prosperity-but this prosperity is necessary to the revolutionary cause, he added virtuously, for it inspires workers everywhere. Moreover, if the Chinese have economic problems, then they have only their own "reckless experiments" to blame. Obviously still smarting at not being consulted, Khrushchev recalled how Mao Tse-tung in 1958 informed him of his disastrous plans to set up agricultural communes. "He was not asking me," said Khrushchev, "he was telling me. So I said, 'It is your business. You try it. But we tried it long ago and failed...
...individual, however, I feel that the continued reckless disregard for human life and basic freedoms on the part of the officials of Mississippi--unless checked by responsible Federal action--will lead to a racial explosion of terrifying proportions. As the blacks of that state become increasingly aware of their supposed rights, as the state becomes increasingly brutal in its suppression of those rights, and as the Federal Government continues steadfastly to ignore its responsibility to protect those rights, it seems to me in evitable that Mississippi Negroes should take it upon themselves to defend them. Blacks, like other men, hunger...
...Empty Canvas is one of those "international" movie projects that appears to have been dreamed up by its principals (during a transatlantic jet flight?) in a spirit of reckless unity. Based on a novel by Alberto Moravia and directed by Italy's Damiano Damiani, the film stars the U.S.'s durable Bette Davis, Germany's Horst Buchholz and Belgium's Catherine Spaak. It is chiefly notable for the fun of watching Davis breast the New Wave plot with bitchy authority...
...woolen mill. From those modest beginnings sprang the $3.3 billion empire that today spans much of the world with 117 factories employing 93,000 workers turning out 1,200 products. It has become the greatest chemical company in the world's history, a company that has spent apparently reckless millions on apparently useless laboratory research, and seen it pay off. Most of Du Pont's current products are things that never existed on land or sea until Du Pont research discovered or developed them: cellophane, nylon, Lucite and neoprene, tetraethyl (antiknock) lead for gasoline, Dacron and plastics...
...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...