Word: fooled
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...I.R.A. had lost its loot, but it had gained worldwide publicity for its cause. It had made a fool of the British Army, which sheepishly admitted that at Aborfield barracks "the only weapon the guards had between them was one pick handle and a four-foot piece of wood, [because] no arms were issued for guard duty." In London, Prime Minister Eden had a 45-minute special session with Field Marshal Sir John Harding, Chief of the Imperial Staff. The British were more worried than they cared to admit by the resurgence of the I.R.A...
...politician who steals," said G. W. Plunkitt, "is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With the grand opportunities all around for a man with political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent...
What ailed Sir Andrew Aguecheek? Shakespeare made it clear that this improbable character in Twelfth Night had emotional problems and intellectual limitations: "I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world." Again: "Many do call me fool." But why? Surely not for the reason that Aguecheek himself offered: "I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm...
...last week's Lancet, London's Dr. William H. J. Summerskill indulged in a tour de force of long-range diagnosis came to the conclusion that the fool may have been right. Physician Summerskill worked it out this way: Aguecheek was drunk every night. His tippling could easily have caused cirrhosis of the liver Even Sir Toby Belch, no pathologist but a fellow tosspot, suspected this: "For Andrew, if he were opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the anatomy...
...physician advise an insurance company not to write a policy on his life. Later, many highly placed Germans said privately that their Emperor was insane, and a high official of the Foreign Office suggested to the British ambassador that he "treat the Kaiser as either a child or a fool...