Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blind fool!" cried Renfroe. "That throw hit me!" Ignoring the 6-ft. player's complaint, Umpire Montes, who speaks no English, stoutly repeated "Fuera." Thereupon Renfroe unleashed a right to his jaw and Umpire Montes was completely fuera...
...story is "As Who Likes It?," a moderately funny parody on Shakespeare's comedy. Its humor comes from a take-off on the supposedly unconvincing disguises of Rosalind in "As You Like It"; in this case, the writer gets some humor out of having both lovers in disguises that fool nobody in the east but themselves. But the plot here too lacks effort and the promise of a reasonably funny climax is never realized. The parody on Kittredge and Coleridge footnotes comes off very well indeed...
...gentlemen," said Lattimore, "my analysis of this may be partly or wholly wrong. But if anybody says that it is disloyal or unAmerican, he is a fool or a knave...
...corn for feed. He had such a bumper crop in 1948 that he cribbed his 904-bushel surplus, put it under Government seal in 1949 and got a $1,319 loan at the $1.47-a-bushel support price less charges. Then a neighbor told him he was a fool: he could put his entire crop under loan at the support price, then buy all the corn he needed for feed at 65½ a bushel in the cash market. In short, by selling all of his own corn to the Government and buying in the open market what he needed...
Most Republicans were against it. Charging that the Republicans were giving lip service to housing but undercutting it with their votes, Majority Leader John McCormack shouted: "What mockery it is, what doubletalk. One may fool the public today, but not next November, because this is going to be a live issue next fall." Republicans disregarded the threat, and so, for that matter, did 81 Democrats. The housing bill, providing close to $4.1 billion for Government loans, passed without Harry Truman's built-in feature for middle-income earners...