Word: fooling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When you have a 21-year-old grudge to avenge, you don't fool around...
...concerned about. In November 1977, he asked the State Department for a series of classified charts analyzing the provisions of the proposed SALT II treaty. The documents indicated how each provision could be verified, the reliability of the data and the chances that the Soviets would be able to fool the verification measures...
...name Monsieur de la Souche for its noble connotations--meets Horace, the dashing young son of an old friend. Horace loses no time in asking Arnolphe for money to help him further his romantic pursuit of a beautiful young woman who has been imprisoned by a jealous old fool. You guessed it--the woman is Agnes and the old fool is M. de la Souche. The plot revolves around Arnolphe's frantic attempts to keep the persistent Horace away from his ward--a task made easier by the fact that the naive young woman tells him of Horace's plans...
Duplicity lay at the heart of both our modern political tragedies-Viet Nam and Watergate. It came in many forms. There was Richard Nixon's audacious attempt to fool 70 million television viewers about his role in the political scandal, and there was Lyndon Johnson's budgetary sleight of hand to disguise $10 billion in war costs. In between there were fibs and fudges, convenient losses of memory, tampering with records, feigned confusion and phony definitions of words and phrases. One way or another, it was all designed to obscure the truth. One way or another...
...said, "is the right of the people of Uganda alone." So why did his forces pursue Big Daddy so long and hard? In a speech at Dar es Salaam last week, Nyerere blandly observed that he had merely ordered his men to "give him a beating," because "that fool kept threatening us." Amin's threatening days may be ending...