Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1915 was as foolish in conception as it was heroic in outcome. Both ends of the scale were weighted by heavy-jawed Sir Ernest ("The Boss'') Shackleton, who in 1909 had gone to within 97 miles of the South Pole. Shackleton had one trouble: he was a towering egotist. As an apprentice in the British merchant navy, he was termed "the most pigheaded, obstinate boy I have ever come across" by his first skipper. Born a middle-class Irishman, he burned to force his way to the top of Britain...
...would be foolish to try to summarize the feelings that Fidel Castro left behind him on his visit and speech here. His personal magnetism and idealism--whether or not one thinks they were inspiring--are the rare and precious gift of a national figure. And if he is "drunk" with anything, it is popularity, not power...
There are those who point out that with better schooling, better homes, the "other things" cannot be equal in any final sense. But the alternative policy--taking the poorer prepared of two equally promising boys--seems even more absurd. "As the applicant group gets better," says King, "it seems foolish to turn down a boy because he's better prepared...
...permanent peace in the world except by establishing law between nations and equal justice under law." The process would need no sweeping new charter said Nixon; the International Court of Justice is already established at The Hague and needs only to be used to be effective. "It would be foolish to suppose that litigation before the court is the answer to all the world's problems," but the areas of possible legal settlement of disputes can and should be widened...
...their vote and pass themselves off as their representatives. In addition the belief of the academically oriented that those who politick are in a lower class causes disdain for another reason, and so the student may mark his ballot with the patronizing view that he is pampering to the foolish whims of these politicos who perhaps do what they do because they lack the intellectual strength to study and become immersed in academics, and so must compensate for their academic weaknesses by attempting to gain recognition through politics. Although this may be a somewhat facile judgment, it bears consideration...