Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stay on; and at the end, his wife dead, he realizes that the land is no longer his. These scenes are maudlin bathos without a sympathetic treatment of Jeeter, and Martin's un-modulated buffoonery throughout the play kills audience feeling for him. His Jeeter is an unbelievable slapstick fool, and his transition to a man desperately fighting for his home is unconvincing...
...glass doors of the Executive Wing of the White House are apt to fool a stranger-they open inward, in violation of Washington's fire regulations. In the first weeks of the Eisenhower Administration, the doors rattled constantly, as new hands tried to familiarize themselves with the place. But by last week there was little fumbling at the doors, the President and his staff had shaken down, and the office was ticking competently along...
...fast-thinking French correspondent dialed the legation-6551-and asked in Russian: "Was that bang a hand grenade or a bomb?" "Don't be a fool," came the reply. "It was a bomb, and a big one. Seconds later the Iron Curtain was lowered, and even Israeli police, barred from the legation, had to wait outside while the injured were carried out. The wife of Soviet Minister Pavel Yershov was slightly hurt, the legation housekeeper was wounded seriously (fragments in the abdomen) and had to be rushed to Hadassah Hospital in an ambulance. A tight-lipped legation official rode...
Realistic Odds. Headmaster Allan V. Heely, '19, of the Lawrenceville School, believes that the younger generation is "harder to fool than we were . . . [It] is fired by the same romantic ardors that bemused and entertained its elders; but it places more realistic odds on the probability of their fruition. This realism is not the expression of deep intellectual or philosophical convictions; nor is it to be interpreted as superficial adolescent cynicism. These young people are aware merely that you cannot count on as much as you used to be able...
...whirling blade overhead, which swishes into outer space all cold and fog and wind and rain, together with the moth and rust that corrupt, leaving the shipping clerk and his riveter wife snug and secure with their three children inside the wall-less vacuum of his dreams. If any fool objects that the neighbors can see in, there are always curtains, or something...