Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Endurance, by Alfred Lansing. Sir Ernest Shackleton's foolish-heroic Antarctic expedition of 1915, re-created in well-modulated prose...
...support for a seminar program for gifted Freshmen has come from Walter J. Bate '39, professor of English and a member of the Committee on Educational Policy. Bate stressed the importance of "putting a student on his own as early in college as possible," and said, "it would be foolish not to try some program on a small scale...
Editorial Thunder. But the stalling has backfired. In newspapers across the U.S., angry and disgusted editorials have blasted the delay as, among other things, "frivolous," "base," "petty," "foolish," "spiteful," "senseless," "inexcusable" and "unconscionable." Even the liberal Washington Post, no friend of conservative Lewis Strauss, protested the Senate's dillydallying. "It ill becomes the Senate," said the Post, "to use its power of confirmation as an instrument of harassment...
Endurance, by Alfred Lansing. Sir Ernest Shackleton's foolish-heroic expedition of 1915, one of the most audacious assaults that the Antarctic ever defeated, a breathless saga re-created in well-modulated prose...
Neither side, Munoz held, will be so foolish as to risk imposing its ideological or technological methods on the other in face of the grave dangers involved. "The deepest religious differences have accommodated themselves to coexistence," in the past, he said...