Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less inhibited by official responsibility. "America must realize," said he, "that the Russians have a strong atomic potentiality, strong scientific talent, great engineering know-how, vast deposits of ore, and the police state in which all these things can be effectively combined. Under such conditions it would be both foolish and extremely dangerous for America to assume Malenkov was lying...
...relationship between indigenous inhabitants and immigrant groups" (U.N. Pidgin for "It's undemocratic"). The council's recommendation: that New Guinea's Australian administrators "develop plans to eliminate [Pidgin] completely." Would the resolution do the trick? Cried Paul Hasluck, Australia's Minister for Territories: "Just as foolish as suggesting that all Europeans should speak nothing but Russian next week...
Under sharp prodding by the Alabama Tuberculosis Association, with eloquent backing from the press, tax-conscious Governor Gordon Persons and the legislature saw that Alabama's penny-wise policy was pound-foolish. The best they could do was to promise to try to find $500,000-somewhere. But every dollar that Alabama "saved" by not spending it this year would mean tens of dollars to be spent in future years on neglected cases, and many a life would be lost. From more than one county came reports of women awaiting admission to a sanatorium and, to support themselves, minding...
...Chicago, where the white-hot White Sox at week's end had won 29 of their last 35 games, Mrs. Mildred Krahn, 34, a baseball fan, withdrew a suit against her husband for separate maintenance. He had called baseball "foolish," she said, objected to her going to a game, and even took a belt to her. But recently he began to watch the White Sox on TV. "He came to me and told me he was wrong about baseball," said Mrs. Krahn. "He's out right now, trying to buy tickets...
...Foreign Secretary Eden's competence and Chancellor Rab Butler's strength, but Lord Salisbury alone can shut Sir Winston up. Long legs sprawled under the table, long fingers drumming quietly, Bobbety has scolded Churchill on such touchy subjects as a Big Four conference (which Salisbury thinks is foolish) and the recognition of Red China ("a particularly futile example of appeasement"). He thus is in a better spot to understand the U.S. position than many Foreign Office civil servants...