Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Incompetent Damn Fool." The Democrats were stunned. Republicans, scarcely able to believe that even Harry Truman could say such things-and in writing-could think of nothing to do at the moment but cluck, "Shocking" . . . "Unfortunate." Iowa's Hickenlooper, when he got his breath, declaimed: "I know that the spirits of heroes from the Halls of Montezuma, from Chateau-Thierry and Tarawa . . . will be aroused...
...send them out on a one-way mission if it ever became necessary." For his commanders he has one stock warning: "You will make some mistakes, and I will back you up-until you make the same one the second time. But don't ever try to fool me. That will be your last mistake...
...retreating South Korean cavalryman reined in his horse on a muddy road near Suwon one day last week, waved wildly at a U.S. bazooka team and shouted a warning: "Tanks, tanks!" Then he spurred his mount southward. The cavalryman was neither coward nor fool; he had already learned what many a U.S. soldier would learn in full and bitter measure before the tide of battle turned: the Communist ground forces, for the moment at least, had the better weapons...
Americans are having difficulty saying what U.S. troops are fighting over. Does Seoul, for example, rhyme with fool, soul, or Creole? "Soul" is closest: the eo is pronounced like the eo in George. All consonants in Korean place names are pronounced as in English except...
...Presbyterian Mission compound in Pyongyang. Burly, deadpanned, boorish, he was Soviet delegate on the Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. [Korean] Commission in 1946. His U.S. opposite number was Major General A. V. Arnold. At one session Shtykov observed testily: "Lenin once said that any man who trusted another was a fool." Arnold looked thoughtfully across the green felt tabletop, replied: "Very interesting, general...