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Word: fool (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems like the good news dominates the bad news in this column, don't fool yourself. If you don't make the playoffs, you just don't make it in the ECAC. Harvard hasn't made it since 1976. Once again, it's time to say, "Wait until next year...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Some Good News and Some Bad News | 3/19/1981 | See Source »

SOMEBODY OUGHT TO WRITE a great book about the Hearsts; an epic that has everything. The saga cries out for one: the mining baron who provided the wealth; the son who created the papers and made a fool of himself in print for years; the five overshadowed sons and their spasmodic attempts to claim their heritage; the splashy comic-tragic climax of Patty spitting a debased radicalism in the family's face. They move from "Pop", as William Randolph Hearst is still called by his son, to pop radicalism, bank jobs, and Tommy guns in 50 years. Such a book...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: An American Poppa | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

...enjoyed every minute of my time with the students and the Faculty, but one would have to be a fool to expect tenure at Harvard," he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Revolving Door | 3/4/1981 | See Source »

...early, we are destroying the sequence that nature so cleverly devised. At that age, boys and girls, but especially girls, are blessed with innocence and candor. The world benefits from these qualities and so do the youngsters. Remember the Chinese proverb: Let the children rule and man becomes a fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 2, 1981 | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...transition--possibly preluding the government to follow--has been a gargantuan monster slowly trudging through swamps of paper, still unsteady and trying to find its bearing. And don't let anyone fool you: The transition isn't over; it's still revving up. But it has all dragged on too long for at least one candidate for an administration post. Back in November--and again in December and January--Chris DeMuth's name kept popping up on lists of people to head the EPA. As far as he knows, he's still under consideration. But another factor has come into...

Author: By James G. Herzhberg, | Title: The Endless Transition | 2/13/1981 | See Source »

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