Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London Calling North Pole, by H. J. Giskes. A German World War II counter spy tells how he managed to fool the British secret service (TIME...
High above the French village of Chamonix towers 15,781-ft. Mont Blanc, a permanent challenge to mountain climbers. Nearby is the even more difficult and dangerous crag, Aiguille du Fou (Fool's Needle), which only the more experienced mountaineers attempt. Last week Mont Blanc delivered up the bodies of four Spanish Alpinists who had disdained guides and paid with their lives. Two other lone climbers started up the rocky crag of Fool's Needle...
...went to England a decade ago and came back (she was last seen with Guinness in Manhattan in T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party) sounding more English than Edith Sitwell. She plays Helena as if she meant it with all her heart; her love for a fool is convincing, her distress in a farcical predicament truly moving, and her every word audible, even above the tooting of passing trains...
Last week, in the Brooklyn Handicap, third race of the Handicap Triple Crown, they loaded 136 Ibs. on Tom Fool. It meant he was giving away weights ranging from 26 to 31 Ibs. to the other entries. Tom Fool broke fast from the starting gate, ran easily in second place until he hit the far turn. There, Jockey Atkinson loosened his tight hold on the reins, clucked once, and Tom Fool took off. Never under a whip, never under pressure, Tom Fool won easily, by a length and a half...
Pleased Trainer John Gaver, after being congratulated on the victory, produced a stock race-track reply: "Good horses make good trainers." Tom Fool's victory revived talk of a "dream race" between Alfred Vanderbilt's champion three-year-old Native Dancer and the champion four-year-old handicap horse. On a weight-for-age basis today, Tom Fool would carry 126 Ibs. in a mile race, the Dancer...