Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means "let the United States" as you say "make itself impregnable". But let us not wait for the attack on this hemisphere. Let us support our first defences. Let us make the sacrifice of American lives less likely. Let us be selfish but let us not be foolish. Philip Mayer...
...would be foolish ... to disguise the gravity of the hour. It would be still more foolish to lose heart and courage, or to suppose that well-trained, well-equipped Armies numbering three or four millions of men can be overcome in the space of a few weeks, or even months, by a swoop or raid of mechanized vehicles, however formidable...
...Faulty, feeble and foolish," was World War Prime Minister Lloyd George's comment on the Chamberlain policy. "All the foresight and striking power in diplomacy and in strategy are on the side of the Nazis," he declared, "all the blunders, the ineptitude, the slackness on the part of the Allies...
Terming the second World War a continuation of the first imperialist struggle, Quill branded as foolish any participation by the United States before the problem of our own 9,000,000 unemployed has been solved...
...play. You sallied forth to go through your usual paces. This time, though, you looked off form. No one laughed. No one pledged you his vote for next election. An exasperated audience, after a pathetic prologue which might have been called "Waiting for Mickey," concluded you were even more foolish than they'd expected, and settled down to the real events of the evening. You didn't manage to "steal the show," or "walk off with the honors" at all. Another performance like this one, and Cambridge is likely to conclude it can do without the pompous, angry little...