Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corps commander rode by? Angrily, the colonel of the regiment replied that his men had been marching night and day for a week in an attempt to beat Bragg's Confederates to Louisville, and he "would not hold a dress parade at midnight for any damned fool living." Whereupon General Gilbert ordered the regiment's colors taken away. It was a mistake. The color sergeant loudly announced that he would kill the general if he so much as touched the colors. Another enlisted man shouldered forward, shouted: "Here, you damned son of a bitch, get out of here...
Treat me like a fool...
...Senate is not future-minded, Mr. White emphasizes. It values caution and tradition. It scorns conformity. It is unimpressed with the success of which a man like Charles E. Wilson is so proud. "Any damn fool," White quotes a Senator's recent comment "can make a million dollars." The Senate is not interested in speed, or in majority rule, or in bigness for its own sake...
...important play-maker position. He has a good one hander from outside when he is "on," having scored over 20 points on several occasions, but on many nights, for an unexplainable reason he cannot get anywhere near the rim. If Hastings can fulfill Wilson's confidence, Harvard may fool a number of teams this year...
...last week hysterically joined the weird posthumous cult of James Dean (TIME, Sept. 3), by featuring the late young actor on three shows and two networks. Harvest, starring Dorothy Gish and Ed Begley, reappeared on NBC's Robert Montgomery Presents; I'm a Fool, with Natalie Wood, on General Electric Theater (CBS); and The Unlighted Road was shown on CBS's Schlitz Playhouse of Stars for the third time. All three shows exploited the Dean legend for frankly commercial purposes. "He's hotter than anybody alive," cried one NBC executive. The pulse-takers backed...