Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scottish syndicate for $1,250,000. As Matador's manager, the new owners later chose Murdo Mackenzie, a strapping (6 ft. I in.) Scotsman who became a legendary figure in the West. Old Murdo never carried a gun ("I'm so big that any fool could hit me"), but fearlessly glared down armed rustlers whom he caught stealing cattle with the Matador's famed "V" brand. He even glared down President Theodore Roosevelt during a conference, told him: "You promised me 20 minutes and then did all the talking. Now you listen...
When they were unable to get the newspapers to publish either their statement or Premier Chou's honeyed words, the Catholics concluded that the whole tea party had been a brazen attempt to fool them into giving a fuzzy declaration that could be twisted to look like a breakaway from Rome. Meanwhile, as the Reds turned on the heat, signatures began sprouting all over China on petitions for an "Independent Catholic Church." Archbishop Anthony Riberi, the apostolic internuncio to China, decided that the time had come to take off the gloves...
Even during his lifetime Major Byron couldn't fool everybody every time. When England got too hot, the major lit out for Paris or the U.S. The editor of New York's Evening Mirror sized him up at first glance in 1849: "We turned from him with the natural disgust we feel for humbugs in general, and literary humbugs in particular." When the major sued for libel and lost, he went back to London, but in 1861 he popped up again in St. Louis in the uniform of a major in the Federal army. Though Major Byron does...
...acclaim was reaching its peak, Peking's People's Daily thundered that "his Life of Wu Hsun . . . showed that reactionary thoughts of the capitalistic class had seeped into the Communist Party." Far from being a hero of the people, Wu was a dangerous fool "who did not realize that his suffering was due to class oppression," and who committed the grave error of turning for help to the rich. Besides, the movie showed him pleading during a peasant uprising: "Killing people-is that the right thing?" China's Red spokesmen, who believe that it is (see above...
...Great Awakening, the fierce evangelical movement that swept through New England in the 1730s and '40s. Then came the American Revolution. The gallant old Reverend Naphtali Daggett, president pro tem ("Would you have me president pro eternitate?"), took down his long fowling piece and opened fire ("You old fool," cried the British, "what are you doing here, firing on His Majesty's soldiers?"). Captain Nathan Hale, '73, was captured and sent to the gallows, and Alumnus David Bushnell devised the first submarine and tried to blow up the enemy fleet in New York Harbor...