Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than an admission of foolish bragging was involved in the change of goals. The self-criticizing article in Peking's People's Daily amounted to a remarkable revelation of the hand-to-mouth nature of the entire industrialization program. Besides sloppy planning, the People's Daily admitted poor designing, serious shortages of skilled labor, general delays in delivery (presumably from Russia), and what was called "poor geological data." The pattern of cuts in mineral production and Chia's announcement of a 500% increase in "prospecting and development operations" indicates that China is a long...
...other shopkeepers closed up voluntarily to avoid trouble, and housewives found meat just as hard to buy as before. One flaming night had not licked inflation or ended grumbling. Said the New York Times this week: "In the long run, [Perón] is doomed, because he is a foolish, bungling, evil dictator...
...Student Council Committee headed by Robert A. Monks has made one of the most alarming suggestions that we have ever heard. A plan whereby all freshmen would be assigned to a House without any expression of choice on their part is foolish and unnecessary for the following reasons...
...Jingo! Aren't they foolish...
CUSC said that Sen. Jonner's calling the proposed rally "silly and foolish," and an "indication that he has no valid answer to offer to the sincerity of student protest against the investigations...