Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baltimore, Greentree Stable's Tom Fool, top handicap horse of 1953, ran his undefeated streak to ten straight by taking the $50,000 Pimlico Special, under a tight rein, in the track-record time of 1:55 4/5 for the mile and three-sixteenths. ¶ In Tokyo, Yankee Pitcher Ed Lopat's All-Star baseball team, billed as the "greatest array of major-league stars ever to visit Japan," was staggered, 5-4, in its opening game, by the Mainichi Orions, a second-division club in the Pacific League. Among the fallen stars: Yankees Yogi Berra and Billy...
...Stir up the fire, Lucio . . . You have the whip and the little knife? Good . . . I don't believe he's Jack-fool enough to resist." But Richard Morandi, a bastard descendant of Stuart kings, is not one to let himself be castrated in front of his sweetheart without fighting back. Since it is Venice and the 18th century, Richard has a knife of his own up his sleeve, and he knows how to use it. Many a lesser novelist would be out of climaxes after Richard dispatches his enemy, but Novelist Samuel Shellabarger has lots more...
...later admitted, "I had a paper in my wallet which would have proven my guilt." At the first chance, the young officer excused himself, went to the toilet, flushed the paper away, and returned. Unable to prove anything against the major, Hady told him, "You're a young fool," but he finally...
...security instead of adventure." ¶ Seek maturity, advised Dartmouth's John Sloan Dickey, through a "liberating education." In the modern world, "the immature are dismayed with disappointment and they demand answers which promise quick, sure, painless solutions. The immature are sure that only a knave or a fool . . . could have made a losing bet. The mature mind resists the search for panaceas and scapegoats . . ." ¶ Overspecialization is what worries Hamilton College's (Clinton, N.Y.) Robert Ward McEwen. Specialists tend to get so wrapped up in their own fields that they cannot function effectively as citizens, said Dr. McEwen...
...Belmont Park, in the notable absence of the ailing Native Dancer, Greentree Stable's four-year-old Tom Fool won the $50,000 Sysonby Mile, in a race so clearly predetermined that there were only three starters and no bets were taken. EURJ In Milwaukee, the transplanted Braves wound up their season as the city's first major-league baseball team in 52 years by soundly shattering all National League records for home attendance: 1,826,397 admissions...