Word: foolish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...King her prayer for salvation: "Dear God, suffer me not to be shaved. If you cannot prevent men from inflicting this shearing upon me, prevent my soul from being clipped." She hoped for royal understanding of youthful folly: "Dear King Haakon, you yourself have probably once been young and foolish, and surely you can understand that one can fall in love even with a German. . . . Help me, dear Haakon...
...second place, Bracken is probably the only actor in Hollywood who is clumsier, more foolish, and more completely ineffectual as a lover than the average American male. But (here's the significant point) he always gets the girl. Think of the hope this stirs in the hearts of the male population...
This week President Betancourt said that of course he weald not be so foolish as to interfere with the country's oil economy. Oil-company spokesmen in Caracas seemed to be happy...
...doctrine that the nation no longer needed manpower for its defense was foolish and dangerous talk. Said George Marshall: "The only effective defense a nation can now maintain is the power of attack. And that power cannot be in machinery alone." There must be men to man the machines. War Department planners, "who have taken every conceivable factor into consideration," advocated a system "which will permit the mobilization of an Army of 4,000,000 men within a period of one year following any international crisis resulting in a national emergency for the U.S." The chief units in that system...
Said Pulitzer Prize Biographer Allan Nevins (Graver Cleveland): "Names of wars are usually inaccurate. What do you say-the Civil War? Or the War between the States, as Southerners say; or the War of the Rebellion, which is the official and rather foolish and unjust name in our records? I prefer the War for Southern Independence. I would like to think this one would become known as the Last...