Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case was forgotten until last fall, when Circuit Judge Carl Wimberly, Senator Cordon's former law partner, charged that Neuberger had been expelled for cheating. Republicans and Democrats alike denounced the story, Neuberger got a lot of publicity, and Republican State Chairman Ed Boehnke announced that "That fool judge has just cost Guy the election...
With that, Coates printed his first angry blast about "the law," which "in its majestic equality, makes more damn fool mistakes." On New Year's Day, with Larry still locked up, Coates drove to Eagle Mountain and talked to the boy's teacher, who said that he was just "a normal, average kid." He talked to the townspeople and found them a decent lot, who had even taken up a collection to help Larry's father pay legal expenses. A day later, when Columnist Coates presented the parents on his TV show, the reaction was instantaneous: shocked...
...generation has lost the lust for power but kept the impulse toward God. Young Haguenier, Herbert's son, is a moonstruck knight who has chosen to serve a frigid beauty and waits in vain for her to thaw. It is hard to believe that any man, saint or fool, would observe the for mal demands of chivalry and obey each of his lady's whims (such as entering a joust in which his only shield is a mirror that must not be damaged). But Haguenier fulfills all his "trials" until he is driven to drink and finally into...
...genius, in the 19th century," wrote Stendhal, "there is no alternative: he is either a fool or a monster." The great French novelist made this remark after meeting the one great romantic genius of Europe whose monstrous capacities were never in doubt: George Gordon, Lord Byron...
From "An American," San Francisco: "To a blind, greedy, materialistic pig: Where have you been for the past eight years, you durnd stupid fool? . . . May you suffer the tortures of hell before you croak, and be damned for all eternity...