Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of atomic warfare with Russia (which will come just as soon as Russia has a good stock of atom bombs), Washington, D.C. will be the safest place in this country . . . Stalin is no fool; with the one exception of Winston Churchill, he is the smartest man in the world today. He knows he cannot trust his closest associates in the Kremlin, but that he can depend on plenty of assistance from [Washington...
...Missouri mule would not have been fool enough to get himself choked to death...
...Alvin Johnson, the best place for such men & women is the expanding field of adult education. There, he believes, they can use their talents freely ("no roll calls, no fool examinations, no bibliographies that no one ever reads, no jargon that no one ever understands") and still not stand in the way of promotion for younger teachers...
Waltari lets his fool rush into every crime a man can commit, and into many of the major scenes of the 16th Century -Michael is present at the Stockholm Massacre of 1520 and the sack of Rome by the troops of Emperor Charles V. He talks with Luther and Erasmus, studies with Paracelsus. In this way, the reader gets alternate doses of high and low life that may be intended, like the hot & cold treatments of a Finnish steam bath, to make him tingle all over. In Waltari overdoses, the treatment brings on numbness...
...minute speech delivered by Sheriff William Harris, of Chatham County, Ga., who referred to "that creature in the White House," and blamed as the source of the Marines' troubles the man who had tried to cut Marine strength to the bone -Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, that "incompetent damn fool...