Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect, Churchill was deliberately forfeiting what credit he had won in the U.S. for a readiness to be bolder in Asia than the Socialists had been. The fact is, Churchill said, "there is no change in our policy. Nothing could be more foolish than for the armies of the U.S. or the U.N. to become engulfed in the vast areas of China," he continued, and "few adventures could be less successful or fruitful than for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to plunge on to the mainland." As a closing shot, he said: "The prospects of a truce being reached and respected...
...Drink laws of England are foolish...
Harvard's Ulen is admired as the only non-griping competitor. "It's a futile business taking my boys down to New Haven," he says, "but it's also foolish to be bitter about their tremendous team. Tradition sends the good swimmers to Yale. I'd like to build up the same tradition and alumni interest here...
...Mason's dead wife, Madelaine. By the third reel, June has dyed her blonde hair black to match Madelaine's, and is painting Siamese cats just as Madelaine once did. An irrational ending saves her from complete insanity, but does not save the film from looking foolish...
Died. Philip G. Epstein, 42, who, with his twin brother Julius, made up one of Hollywood's top scenarist teams, chiefly as adapters of plays (The Man Who Came to Dinner), novels (Chicken Every Sunday) and short stories (My Foolish Heart), Oscar winners in 1943 for their screenplay of Casablanca; of cancer; in Los Angeles...