Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recruiters fool you: the Army is hard up for officers and you don't have to enlist to be one. If you don't like waiting around and want to go into the Army on a specific month, just ask your selective service board and they'll be glad to draft you earlier...
When he was just 14, Harrison's mother died, and his father grieved himself to pieces. Harrison quit school and pestered a local contractor for a job. "Son," the contractor told him, "you're a damn fool to go into building. Go into farming, that's where the money is." Nevertheless, he took Harrison on as an office boy, and later even let him diagram some stone designs. Harrison soon noticed something about the contracting business: the contractor took his orders from the architect. That decided him: he would be an architect...
...most popular pictures at the show was Kenneth Davies' Pocusmania, a fool-the-eye, symbol-filled closet of everyday objects weirdly misplaced. Also on hand was Davies' quieter piece of realism, The Bookcase...
...wish the code had a stiffer penalty for those taking advantage of poor people," said the prosecutor. "This man made a fool out of a poor, honest working girl." The presiding judge agreed. Last week he sentenced Valentin to four years and three months in prison, plus an indemnity of 20,000 pesetas to be paid to Maria. But the 27-year-old ex-marquesa, who had taken time off from her job as a charwoman to testify, bore no grudge. Her work-reddened hands hidden in the folds of a rich, black silk dress, the one remnant...
...thinks the Class of '27 is one of the youngest he's seen. The silver on some heads doesn't fool him. "Some of you young bucks, my boy who is a junior here now, may think we're old fogies, but the only change I can see in my classmates is that some of them look older. But they don't act older. I can recognize most of them right away...