Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...savor rich language. For all his Welsh thunder and soaring, Thomas knows very well what he is up to: "These poems, with all their crudities, doubts and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren...
...what can I do? Give up the farm? All my life savings are in it. And who would buy it anyway? Nobody in Kenya is such a bloody fool as to want to buy a farm, today...
...Fool! Donkey! Ass!" Papa Wiener was a character in his own right. Omnivorous scholar, fanatical Tolstoyan rigid vegetarian, amateur farmer and heterodox Slavic philologist, Bialystok-born Leo Wiener was an austere and aloof yet somehow lovable paterfamilias. Papa was dissatisfied with ordinary schools and instructed Norbert personally until the boy went to high school. Papa, a good teacher was also an irascible man, and whenever Norbert stumbled, there would come streaming down upon him a flood of invective in German: "Fool! Donkey...
...Professor Furry didn't impress me as an honest witness," Kearney added. "He remembered only those things he wanted to remember." In refusing to answer so many questions. "Furry made a fool of himself," Kearney said...
Kearney placed much of the blame for Furry's "damned fool answers" on the professor's attorney, Joseph Forer. He said, "Forer has represented a lot of these chaps before the committee and told them all to refuse to answer...