Word: fool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days like this, runners are usually more cautious," McCurdy said later. "But we didn't rush the pace. It was those damn fool Columbia runners, and we just had to try to stay with them...
...true that Reagan, a skilled campaigner, managed to fool many last November, garnering votes from people of every class and background who should have known better. But Solidarity Day proves two things--many of those who were taken in have realized their folly, a realization aided by decisions like the current effort to slash the size of school lunches for poor children. And more, many of those people are now willing to do something concrete about their dissatisfaction...
...have looked in vain for the overriding moral issues that would cause the air controllers to break their oaths not to strike [Aug. 24]. Today there are so many "good" excuses to ignore inconvenient constrictions of honor that only a fool lets such a matter interfere with a clever tax return, an increase in profits or a successful strike...
Another Southern man of the people, Louisiana's Huey Long, would have found Helms incomprehensible. "Anybody that lets his public policies get mixed up with his religious prejudices," Long said, "is a goddamned fool." But Helms, heedless, faces the crowd this day in bleachers on the parched crab grass and delivers a sermon. He rhapsodizes about his pen pal Alexander Solzhenitsyn's dedication to freedom and Christianity. He flagrantly overstates Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th century observations about American piety. Most of all, he praises God. "The Lord is speaking to us: 'I have need for thee.' To uphold...
Otherwise all is indirection-the professor who refers to his "learned colleague" (meaning "fool") or the Congressman who defers to "the distinguished gentleman from New Jersey" (meaning "crooked fool"). There simply are no great insults any more; what was an art has become a shambles...