Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name, he struck at "politicians . . . who go about the country expressing . . . their worries about America and the American people," suggested that such "worrywarts" should "forget themselves for a while" and "get out and mingle with the people." If they did, he was sure "their worries would begin to sound foolish-even to them." Troubled with an ailing public-address system, Ike evoked only mild enthusiasm from his Cleveland audience...
...Duke had obviously decided to make the best of an embarrassing peephole routine and spoke engagingly, if obliquely, of the decision that rocked an empire: "We both feel that there is no more wasteful or foolish or frustrating exercise than trying to penetrate the fiction of what might have been. But I do know what has been in the 20 years since we were married. They have been rewarding years, years of great happiness, years of no regrets, and years when we have preferred to look to the future...
...procedure the danger increases with old-fashioned-X-ray machines and inexperienced operators. The sensible conclusion is that patients would be foolish to forgo needed X rays, especially when given by a doctor or dentist who knows his business and his dosages, and would be still more foolish to expose themselves to needless X rays...
...best Tufts team ever fielded and Lloyd Jordan and his staff are doing their best to keep the Crimson "up" for the game--to avoid the defeat handed it by UMass, 13-7, two years ago. But with so many schools of Harvard's size to play, it seems foolish for the Crimson to persist in playing games with teams that "have nothing to lose and everything to gain...
...United Nations Security Council begins discussing the threats to peace resulting from Egypt's nationalization of Suez, few can deny that the international organization is facing one of the most critical tests of its history. Anyone who would predict a satisfactory outcome at present would be foolish indeed, but a bold stroke of Western diplomacy, combined with some reasonableness from the ruler of the Nile, could yet save the situation...