Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This meant Atlanta's famed Golfer . Bobby Jones, who said: "I resent any implication that the President would be susceptible to such an influence, and I resent the implication that I would be foolish enough to try to bring such influence to bear." Jones, who, with his wife, owns $18,000 worth of stock in the Southern Co. (whose chairman is Eugene Yates of the Dixon-Yates plan), said that he had not discussed the $100 million Dixon-Yates plan with Ike and that "it would come as a surprise to me if he had ever known...
...treatment and forcible indoctrination of British prisoners taken in Korea. But perhaps their most interesting quest would be to seek out their own opposite numbers in China-the leaders of the "democratic parties," which are still allowed a tenuous existence owing to their propaganda value-and, without asking such foolish questions as how these parties viewed their chances of coming to power during this year's "elections," to inquire precisely how their party platforms differ from that of their Communist rulers. This should be an instructive glimpse of the "new democracy" at work...
...with a gun, a string of cars or a toy steamer, we are fascinated by the city. We like clamor, and the clamor becomes glamour. We become insensate to beauty-but beauty is a word that soon will be taboo. I only use it when I feel weak and foolish...
...weeks, two more foolish monkeys were caught-one by following strategically placed bits of orange peel straight into the mouth of a zoo keeper's sack-but the three remaining holdouts had grown shrewder than ever. In the end, it was only the perversity of fate and their common simianity that brought them down. One day last week, unused to the perils that abound in freedom, one of the monkeys was hit by a passing automobile. As he lay in the road, stunned but unhurt, a lurking keeper took him captive...
...monks, like as the great ocean has but one savor, the savor of salt, so has this religion and order but one, the savor of renunciation . . . Long is the night to him who is awake, long is the mile to him who is tired, long is life to the foolish who know not the True...