Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only once by name, with passing scorn for "foolish adventures," did Dean Acheson in his Press Club speech mention Formosa. But the word had hissed like a hot coal on ice earlier in the week when he met for five hours with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and for four hours next day with the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and it steamed all week in the speeches of a small but angry group of Republican critics...
This strikes me as an unusually foolish business. The Council's resolution is unsound in theory and unworkable in practice...
...place and another, 31-year-old Headmaster Eric Johnson* of the Friends' Central School in Philadelphia had known many a badly behaved parent-the selfish, the complaining, the foolish. But there were some parents he and his teachers thought were wonderful. Last week, in his own Parents' Bulletin, he told what sort they were...