Word: thoughtless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear, Comrade Molotov said, where the "attitude of the present Finnish Government lies." The Government of Finland "doesn't wish to maintain normal relations with the Soviet Union. It continues in its hostile attitude. . . . From such a Government and from its thoughtless military clique we can expect only fresh insolent provocations." For this reason, the U.S.S.R. had given order to the Army "to be ready for any surprise and immediately check possible fresh sallies...
...four times as many as Vermont), he built the first air-conditioned palace in India. He did not recondition Indore's archaic tax structure, which gave him one rupee in every three of revenue (estimated annual state income: $5,000,000). Among his reforms have been laws curbing thoughtless extravagance on marriages, and making it illegal for minors to marry...
...Thoughtless Little Incident...
...when the reporter took Dr. Goulden's picture. Apparently he was on deck and had the inhalation apparatus strapped on over his face and, as there was no oxygen connected up to the apparatus, he probably unconsciously put the pipe in his mouth. It is one of those thoughtless little incidents that can happen when one is not perfectly conversant with oxygen and the impossibility of having fire of any type in its neighborhood...
...Wild Palms rest with the convict's story, the book might have become a classic of involuntary adventure. It is a pulsing, racing story, a kind of hysterical Huckleberry Finn, its humor at once grotesque and shrewd, its moral at once grim and humane. The convict, with his thoughtless courage, his exasperation at the titanic forces unleashed against him, is Faulkner's most original and attractive character. And the whole book is conceived in the grand manner. Faulkner makes you feel the terrible fragility of man's levees, boats, prisons, other civilized trappings; he suggests that...