Word: fooled
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...stands, grinning lopsidedly, the whiff of mischief strong. Straightaway, he needles his too earnest competitor from Rhode Island College (who had, after all, just called Kidd an "obnoxious fool"). "Yes, I saw last night," Kidd says, "the hideous goings-on between my honorable opponent and the lady he mentioned in his opening arguments. Is it any wonder that he would have us accept an argument that leads only to suicidal hopelessness?" The R.I.C. man, still jaunty, hums a bar of Feelings. The judge shouts, "You're losing it, Kidd!" Catcalls are tossed out promiscuously ("Lies! Lies!"), and as Kidd...
Then the neighbors, who had gathered outside, became quite concerned about my mental health, offering me tea as I told them what a stupid fool I really am. A decade passed before a cop arrived to fill out forms and bestow a traffic citation and a bill for the tow truck. He drove me back to the house, asking me how long I'd be in town and what I was doing that night. "Feeling guilty," I answered miserably...
...most crucial aspect of the job according to official doctrine, was to keep the customer on the phone. And to aid in this pursuit, unnamed phone-solicitation experts had developed fool-proof scripts, which had an answer for everything...
...absolute power this person dreams of. The days of Rockefeller, Hunt, Getty and other corporate dictators are over. Management these days has a board and stockholders to answer to, so unless all of your business associates are likewise closet liberals. You will succeed only in making a total fool of yourself, after which you will be fired and blackballed from taking any position in corporate management again...
...have no interest in freedom or justice, who have managed to enslave most Americans with their perversions of these ideas. This ill-defined and watery "American Creed" has offered convenient cover for those whose ideas are directly contrary to its noble ideals; they have managed to fool enough of the people to withstand the few radicals who have caught on to their game...