Word: fooled
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...last chance-and perhaps the best instructions on how to seize it came from David Littlejohn, who last year was a Harvard teaching fellow, and is now an assistant professor of English at Stanford. Littlejohn set out to rebut an annual Harvard Crimson piece on how to fool the grader on exams by "use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption...
...soft piece of putty shaped by English hands. One does not hear of his constant efforts to soothe Hitler, his competition with the German ambassador in Moscow, or his fear of admitting defeat in his own policies. All were important in determining the scene upon which Chamberlain played the fool...
Today the Yalies entertain Colgate and only a fool would place money on the outcome. That is not to say Yale shouldn't win--it should. Obviously. But Colgate has had some good moments, and Yale may have several bad ones left, so this one has to rate as a toss...
...Everyone knows it's a fool who bites the hand that feeds him. Now to top that comes the New Frontier fool: one who feeds the hand that bites...
These excuses did not appear to fool the Kennedy policy-makers, who seem to have developed sufficient acumen in Latin American affairs to recognize cynical bids for U.S. aid. But recognizing the cynicism of the military juntas is only a precondition to doing something about them. Although President Kennedy deplored the army takeovers at his press conference Wednesday, he did not say whether the United States had determined to help the people of the Dominican Republic bring these unpopular rulers down...