Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Connell added a practical point: "If these supposed rational beings should possess the immortality of body once enjoyed by Adam & Eve, it would be foolish for our superjet or rocket pilots to try to shoot them. They would be unkillable...
...House of Commons, Winston Churchill gave the state's endorsement to the church's plea. "Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant and venomous things that are said," declared the Prime Minister, "but on the whole we would rather lump them than do away with...
...Foolish Strategy. The old soldier's smashing frontal attack was aimed at the Democratic Administration. In no sense was it a speech favoring the Taft faction as against Eisenhower...
...seems that some time ago MGM made a lot of money with a movie called "Cheaper By the Dozen," and decided to produce a sequel. Because "Son of Cheaper By the Dozen" sounded foolish, and for probably no other reason at all, it was named "Belles On Their Toes." It continues the story of a prolific female engineer, her twelve miraculously self-sufficient off-spring, and a servant named Hoagy Carmichael. It is not an insufferably hilarious picture. In the maudlin machinations of twelve small children there is probably warm, lovable, nostalgic, human appeal, if you happen to like that...
Councilman Chester A. Higley, chairman of the public safety committee termed Lynch's motion "foolish and stupid--absolutely ridiculous. This is mass punishment, and I'm not in favor of it. This won't come up before a public safety meeting for a long time, I'll see to that...