Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be better were we not shackled and hamstrung by foolish requirements that are foisted on us by the "educators" in the colleges. When the colleges have more sensible entrance requirements, they might not have to look down their snide noses at their poor relatives in the secondary schools...
...success of his European tour, Ray Robinson is neither the world's richest fighter nor its most popular. For one thing, even at a time when such a club-fighting brawler as Rocky Graziano was drawing $100,000 gates, Robinson had trouble lining up opponents good enough, or foolish enough, to step into the same ring with him. For another, U.S. crowds, always preferring a slugger to a boxer, were almost bored by his cold, businesslike perfection in the ring. "I'm a boxer," says Robinson, "not a fighter...
...Pound Foolish. In Oblong, Ill., on being presented with an $825 bill for home-insulation materials, retired Mailman W. R. Wall took the salesman to his bedroom, pointed to a pile of 110,000 pennies, paid up when the salesman returned with a truck to haul off the 550-lb. remittance...
...that we ought to cut down the goal for our armed forces by a half a million men," he said. "And this same Senator wants to go for an all-out war in China all by ourselves. At a time like this such a cut would . . . not only [be] foolish, it would be downright dangerous...
...pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again-That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate...