Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were expected to launch a well-publicized attack on the corruption which, under Congress Party rule, spread through the Kerala state government like chickweed. Optimists argued that this kind of competition would be a healthy influence on the Congress Party. "This idea." commented the Hindustan Times, "is no less foolish than keeping a cobra in the backyard to keep the lazier members of the family on their toes...
...feature peculiar to Continentalism, however, is sun glasses. These are lifted right from the French and Italian Rivieras and from the left bank, and give a dashing and alien air to one's whole appearance. What is so foolish is that they are worn indoors; and while most may think the wearer suffers from dilation of the pupils, he himself has transformed his table in the Waldorf to a little wrought iron one in some sidewalk cafe, where he sits reading a foreign language newspaper. Dark glasses are a little farther than most care to go, though...
...President, the idea of double-damning Japan by limiting exports to the U.S. and preventing trade with "any of the great area" (i.e., Red China) close by across the China Sea seemed foolish. "You just block them, and they have no place to go except in the arms of somebody where we don't want them to go." Ike's reasoning invited a second question: Was the U.S. preparing to bring China trade controls in line with less stringent controls on trade with the Soviet sphere of Europe? Always unwilling to announce policy shifts...
...foolish lengths to which high-tariff advocates will go to protect home industry were demonstrated last week in a case involving imported violins. The Tariff Commission sent President Eisenhower a recommendation to treble the tariff on instruments valued by the foreign manufacturer at $25 or less. The proposed new rate: 52 ½ % ad valorem and $1.87 ½ each v. the current 17 ½ % plus 62 ½ each. Fiddle-faddle, said the President, vetoing the boost. He noted that violins and violas of this type are made by only one U.S. manufacturer, Jackson-Guldan of Columbus, Ohio, which employs 30 production...
...alien to each other. But as a veteran of suspense fiction (The Mask of Alexander), Author Albrand keeps the plot from collapsing. Booth inexorably moves in on Miranda with hammer locks of misunderstanding. In her politeness he manages to see incipient love, and in his calculated humility she is foolish enough to see kindness...