Word: fooled
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...farmers, moonshiners, preachers and feudists. His father was an impoverished and illiterate coal miner. But young, log cabin-born Jesse Stuart, who often went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Robert Burns, was determined to go to college (Said a neighbor: "He's a plum fool. If he was a young'un of mine, I'd whip his tail with a hickory"). Although hiring out to farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages 11 to 15, Stuart eventually-following circus and steel mill stints-graduated...
...handing over a shopping bag to Lonsdale. Found on him were undeveloped photographs of 212 pages from Particulars of War Vessels, drawings for some of the Navy's latest ships, and 58 pages of Admiralty fleet orders. Said Houghton to the police: "I've been a bloody fool." Miss Gee pleaded, "I've done nothing wrong," and the inscrutable Lonsdale said nothing...
...port for their captain to sober up (it's been two weeks, y'know), so they can sail to Africa and make a killing in uranium, they become entangled with a British tourist and his wife (Jennifer Jones'). These tea-soaked commoners hold illusions of grandeur and romance which fool the intriguers as thoroughly as they fool the Britishers themselves...
Kennedy will face so many difficult policy problems that he should have ample opportunity to make a fool of himself. He need not expose himself to further, inessential embarrassment through the vagaries of live televised press conferences...
That I was such a fool...