Word: fooled
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...once said that Forrest must be taken "if it costs 10,000 lives and breaks the Treasury." Forrest never was taken. At the war's end he weighed a plan to escape with his men to Mexico and go on fighting from there, but rejected it as a fool idea. At Appomattox, General Robert E. Lee was asked who was the greatest soldier under his command. Answered Lee: "A man I have never seen, sir. His name is Forrest...
...shipped overseas to hide airdromes, tank farms, gun emplacements. So well has the mesh worked that it is fast replacing spun glass and steel wool camouflage covers. Boasted Camoufleur Kleiser: "A robin built a nest in one of our fake trees in Seattle. It has to be good to fool a robin...
While I, poor fool, with an old slide rule...
...could oppose Mr. Roosevelt, and this involves finding an alternative to his anti-Axis policy which is not straight pro-Naziism. . . . To do them justice, they would be honestly revolted by straight Naziism but . . . if I were an American, and had read this book . . . I should think myself a fool to make any sacrifice whatsoever in order to win this...
...coat of paint. The tantalizing dinners, the high-blown conversation turned as sour and dull as their host's description of them. James Porter Monroe was nothing but dull proof once again that anyone with a fast line, some stationery, a telephone, an expense account, can fool Washington. He did not know his way around; he had no influence. Washington bigwigs went to his house because they are always going to somebody's house. Washington reporters knew all this, but they had hoped that this time it would be different. It wasn...