Word: fooled
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Nehru, his carefully fostered illusions of coexistence rudely shattered, was furious. "Bloody fool," spluttered Krishna Menon. Demanded Nehru: "Why didn't you ask me before you did a thing like this?" Retorted Sir John: "Do you ask me for permission before you make a move?" Scowling, China's Chou rose and demanded an opportunity to reply...
...only man that made the President laugh. When they introduced him, 'Gentlemen, the President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge,' I said, 'Pardon me, I didn't catch the name." Blackstone's interest in politics heightened when he was recommended for vice-president as "The only man who could fool the people...
...April Fool's" story in the Rensseclaer Polytechnic Institute's undergraduate newspaper announcing that the Easter vacation had been cancelled because of a campus quarantine has resulted in expulsion of the newspaper's entire editorial board...
...committed the tactical affront of putting Urban VIII's words and viewpoint in the mouth of the simplest-minded character in the Dialogue, a doctrinaire Aristotelian named Simplicio. The powerful Jesuit faction, which advised the Pope, had no trouble convincing him that he had been made a fool of and that Galileo's views were "potentially more disastrous than Luther or Calvin." In 1633 Galileo stood before the Inquisition...
...seemingly innocent natives soon prove to be suffering from human nature. They like private property and often marry for wealth or power rather than love. In their own primitive fashion, they are as firmly entered in the 20th century rat race as a Madison Avenue adman. No fool, Salesman Rantz snows the natives under with his bag of jokes-which terrify the islanders. He makes a laughingstock of the chief and moves into his job. By the native code losers in the grab for power are exiled to the other side of the island...