Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making obscene gestures. Along the sordid route of this story, Williams offers such gems of wisdom as, ". . . beauty was a world of its own whose anarchy had a sort of godly license," and such gems of prose as, "Because you are very young, said Mrs. Stone, and very foolish and very beautiful. And because I am not so very young any more and not so beautiful, but beginning to be very wise...
...meantime, were the U.N. forces to withdraw behind the 38th parallel, the world would begin to doubt America's determination to meet its obligations. We would be in the same foolish position politically and militarily as before the 25th of June...
...tail on his pseudo-liberal donkey, his book might have been a very witty one. As it is, he all too often confuses the silly ass with some of the hard-headed heroes of U.S. history, and starts throwing him political kisses. A man can look mighty foolish kissing a donkey...
...sense of tension and foreboding-or a sense that the U.S. was proceeding too leisurely to arm itself against the threat of a World War. But few seemed to see anything incongruous in the fact that Milton Berle was billed as Mr. Dynamite simply because he could make foolish grimaces, or that hundreds of thousands of vacationers were lounging on beaches...
...ordinary stay-at-home citizen knows whether the use of the atomic bomb against the enemy is good military strategy now. But if the strategists decide that a telling blow with the bomb might be struck, we would be foolish indeed to hamstring ourselves for fear of being considered indecent...