Word: fooled
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...whenever he needs money, hustles suckers in low poolrooms where he is not known. One night he takes the wrong chump. Four wharf rats gang him and break his thumbs-a mythological emasculation if ever there was one. Soon after that-in part because the hero, in his pool-fool cuepidity, has neglected her -the girl lets her life out of her wrists. The hero's heart at last is touched. Redeemed by love and suffering, he rises from spiritual death, challenges the old king once more and this time defeats...
...year. Said Ted Williams, then splintering splendidly with the Boston Red Sox: "He's got guts, and he'll fight you all the way. He's not very big. so there's a limit to what he can do. But he'll fool...
...this summons from one of hell's belles. They bring her presents. She pays off. Her mother (Constance Ford), fearing that the poor child will come a-sharecropper, advises her to marry a rich man (Claude Akins), but when the girl laughs him off as a "fat old fool,'' the mother is only too ready to offer him consolation. In the end, two of the daughter's boy friends fight, and one of them is killed. Stricken with guilt, the wench cries out: "Oh Papa! It's all my fault...
...knew their commanders, and as the vehicles crashed past, most of the soldiers were on their feet, cheering and yelling. The Gurkhas, of course, went by sitting stiffly to attention, whole truckloads bouncing four feet in the air without change of expression. The romance of war-but only a fool would begrudge us the excitement and the sense of glory, for no one on that plain had wanted war, and all of us had known enough terror to last several lifetimes...
...where not even a Volkswagen could pass. Some cyclists are frightened by their first experience of heavy traffic, but, says Allen Bragdon, a publishing executive who pedals to work with an attache case strapped to his bike, "it's really quite safe. Everyone thinks, 'Look at that fool on the bike. Let's stay away from him.' " Bicycling gives the riders a strong sense of independence. "You're a free agent," says Bragdon. "It's a gesture of self-determination. I meet lots of people and our friendship lasts for about 20 blocks...