Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese businessmen must keep in mind that the Communist bloc needs trade worse than the West. Its need for capital goods to industrialize China, even of rice to feed it, is the major reason for the ruble offensive. Hence, the West has a bargaining advantage which it would be foolish to sacrifice merely to permit any individual businessmen to gain a few minor, short-lived advantages. For as long as the cold war lasts, the free world, too, must treat trade as a weapon...
...Being Foolish." U.N. military and diplomatic observers, many of whom had sympathized with the old man's stand, were angered by his conduct last week. U.S. officials were also angered when Rhee insinuated that President Eisenhower's promise of a post-armistice mutual-security pact was worthless. Even Rhee's own generals were reportedly telling him that it would be impossible for Korea to go it alone. And there were increasing signs that the ROK army would remain loyal to the U.N. Command in a showdown. Said one ROK army officer last week: "Of course...
Home Ground. Why had NBC and CBS wasted so much time and money instead of following ABC's sensible course? For two reasons, both of which turned out to be foolish: 1) their competitive frenzy, which blinded them to everything except beating the other network, and 2) the groundless fear that the quality of the films and commentary made by the British would not be up to U.S. standards...
Magic Numbers. "I most deeply believe that it is foolish and dangerous for any of us to be hypnotized by magic numbers . . . There is no given number of ships-no specific number of divisions-no special number of billions of dollars-that will automatically guarantee our security . . . Today three aircraft with modern weapons can practically duplicate the destructive power of all the 2,700 planes we unleashed in the great breakout attack from the Normandy beachhead . . . I [speak] to you . . . not only as your President but as one whose life has been devoted to the military defense of our country...
Father Cantillon's summation: "Back in 1870 or 1880, women took the wrong road when, as feminists, they undertook the foolish course of demanding women's rights. It was as if they wanted to be half woman and half man, as if they were . . . ashamed of being women...