Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Painful Silence. Almost no one took the streets to say anything in Bao Dai's favor. What was there to say? On election day, even his mother voted against the fat, foolish emperor. Reporters, touring the polls, could find no evidence of chicanery. There was no need for any. Premier Diem got his 98.2% of the vote. Only a few thousand among the 5,828,000 ballots were found to be invalid, a crushing defeat for the Communists, who had urged that defaced ballots be cast as a gesture of protest...
...move in and out of the demilitarized border zone of El Auja with impunity, as it did last week, and it gives (to Egyptian ears) an intolerable acidity to Premier-designate Ben-Gurion's statement on the eve of Yom Kippur: "I hope Egypt won't be foolish enough to try to blockade the Gulf of Aqaba against us. We can beat them...
...author used as a pseudonym a Washington professor's name, writing the article to burlesque the attempts of certain schools to falsify their historical backgrounds. "why are we doing this?" he said in the article. "Our reason is to make the whole battle for historical precedence so foolish that the Association of American Colleges or some similarly comprehensive agency will devise a clear standard for establishing the founding dates of colleges and universities...
...sensual. Krull's delight in candies and women and circuses are far beyond even the despest inner longings of Hans Castorp. The insistent attention to clothes, though possibly dictated by the content are a material-sensual innovation. Humor too is introduced in these confessions. Conscious irony, conscious humiliation of foolish people by a foolish man force chuckles from any reader...
...Foolish Virgins." Slowly, under the women's blank stares, government officials resorted to defensive measures. At a ceremonial opening of a police barracks, Minister of Justice C. R. Swart scrambled over a fence to avoid walking through the Black Sashers' gauntlet. Ministers took to concealing their movements, ducking through side doors, arriving at parties or weddings without warning, buying theater tickets under false names, asking meeting organizers not to announce scheduled speeches. Nothing helped. The women were always waiting. The government was goaded into irritable complaint. "Weeping Winnies," one Minister called them, and Prime Minister Strydom himself gibed...