Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President has stated that he would seek to make the plan self-enforcing and fool-proof, and at the same time has mentioned the "ratios of contributions (to the the stockpile), the procedures and other details" to be worked out in private conversations. But it is plain that the very life of the plan depends on a successful resolution of the disagreements over details. More than once the Russians have sabotaged a Western peace overture through unreasonable demands over procedure...
...doesn't believe for a moment that Charles Dawson, the attorney and amateur antiquarian who discovered the skull, is the perpetrator of the hoax. "I'm only guessing." he said, "but I think the joker was one of the technicians in the British Museum who had an ambition to fool the experts...
...people will ever make a fool of McNamara. H.U.E.R.A. members say that in spite of his lack of experience, he is one of the shrewdest labor men around. He has never been known to show anger when dealing with the University, yet he usually gets what he wants. He will back anyone's grievance to the limit, providing the employee with the complaint will follow him into the offices of the administration...
...Novosibirsk in central Siberia. Everywhere he found warmth and hospitality. In Tiflis, he and his wife asked directions of a Russian woman. An MVD officer came up and said: "It's forbidden to talk with a foreigner." The woman turned on the MVD man and shouted, "You fool! Don't try to tell me what to do!" She then offered to show the Stevenses the way, invited them to visit her home...
...Turn-To, Jockey Henry Moreno up. Owner Harry F. Guggenheim and Jockey Moreno figured in another long-shot victory this year: Dark Star in the Kentucky Derby. ' ¶At New York's Jamaica race track, the year's champion handicap horse, Greentree Stable's Tom Fool, was retired to stud with a farewell parade around the track after,' the running of the $80,400 Empire City Gold Cup (won by the Charfran Stable's Crafty Admiral). Out of the money only once in 30 starts and unbeaten in this, his four-year-old season...