Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkish army, like all good armies, is full of pride and tradition. Sometimes it has thought what the Americans preached was a little foolish, and has simply ignored it. For instance, because he has always done it, and because he is afraid of ears listening in on the new American radio equipment, a corps commander will still-incredible as it may seem-put an order for a division commander in an envelope, paste a postage stamp on it, and post it at the nearest mail drop. The Turkish general officer thinks his new radio equipment is too valuable to waste...
...matter how foolish the attempt to maintain the status quo may be, I would like to prolong that segment of it known as Harvard University as long as possible in its independent position. No matter how dearly beloved the old College football team (rah, rah) may be to the hearts of alumni, if that group is unable to support its emotional indulgences, students currently enrolled should not be expected to pay for them. The H.A.A. should be severely curtailed in its operation. Harvard should follow the University of Chicago's approximate twenty year lead and abolish football which...
...milk, to put fruit on American breakfast tables, fresh vegetables and salad greens in the daily diet. Incidentally and unwittingly, he started a booming business: every year Americans spend $250 million for vitamins (four-fifths of it for pills and capsules). Much of this spending, Dr. McCollum believes, is foolish, because most people can get all the vitamins tney need from proper diet. Elmer McCollum was a farm boy, born (in a sod hut) near Fort Scott, Kans. As a young man, with a Ph.D. from Yale, he went to the University of Wisconsin to work on cattle feeds...
...Rochester, N.Y., who serves the Communist rebels as a sort of propaganda director. "He had about 15 bodyguards around him, armed to the teeth," Jones said. "Here we were, two Americans, one white, the other colored, both wasting their time thousands of miles from home, one for a foolish creed, the other for a silly...
...July 23 issue you quote Chief Justice Vinson as saying, "Nothing is more certain in modern society than the principle that there are no absolutes." Vinson either contradicts himself or he is a very foolish man, for he says in effect that he is not absolute about his very statement...