Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This time the High Court judges were calm, judicially correct members of the French Parliament. Charged with negotiating a German mission in Dakar, and with trying to get German arms for use against the Maquis, Guérard, now 60, declared that it was all a double game to fool the Germans. His espousal of the occupation in a 1943 lecture, he testified urbanely, was "merely a defense of the European idea...
...money to work without throwing it away was another story. As Banker Birla put it: "Any fool can make money in the U.S., but to make money in India is an art. India is like the sands of the desert, where money can disappear like water." Because only "some success stories" can really get his crusade moving, Graham now believes that he must focus on bigger deals first before he can make the thousands of little ones he dreams of. In Bombay he put up $20,000 to match $20,000 in rupees" from Textile-man P. N. Kejriwal...
Getting back to John Yovicsin, I want to say "Stick with John a few years and you won't be sorry." I read a lot about seven men quitting the Harvard football team and the reason for quitting. They (the sports writers) can't fool me. John just got the men separated from the boys...
Testifying for Thompson was Lampoon Circulation Manager John A. Herbert, who explained that the alleged holdup was a part of the magazine's Fool's Week initiations. Santa was another Lampoon candidate...
...great intellectual grunion-run, and I was diverted. I wandered through the alley-ways and knocked on brown-wood doors, and was admitted. Once inside, I watched the men speak lines and gesticulate, and somehow failed to understand. Beside a soundless stage my doubt played the part of a fool, incapable, strutting in a stupid pride, mute, dead, responding to a pair of strings attached to twitching thumbs...