Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plain stupidity." Seasoned boatmen still shake their heads over the youthful sport who recently went blasting around Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., with a water-skier in tow. Keeping his eyes on the skier, he slammed at 30 m.p.h. into a cabin cruiser, decapitating himself in the process. Equally foolish were the nine people who piled into a 16-ft. outboard and put to sea from York, Me., last June. Naturally, the boat soon foundered; eight of the nine boaters drowned. All nine might have been saved if they had only thought to carry life jackets...
...first aid and break through police lines. Using a technique perfected by Japanese students, they locked arms and snake-danced around baseball dia monds, chanting ''Wash-air (a Japanese expression urging enthusiasm). They also practiced karate. "To remain passive in the face of escalating police brutality is foolish and degrading," said David Baker, a Committee leader from Detroit, who was leading the practice. "The advice used to be that you should give police a flower and say 'Hello, brother.' But it didn't stop the brutality, and people continued to get hurt...
With people taking so many foolish chances in the movie, the Green Berets will probably not even want to use it as a recruiting come...
...courts in punishing offenders. The gun run now in progress is certainly not being carried out by potential criminals but rather by citizens who wish to protect themselves and their families, since they can no longer depend on the authorities to do this job. Before we do something foolish in a time when we are guided by our emotions rather than our reason, we may do well to recall the words of Benjamin Franklin: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety...
Dangerously Overinflated. Randolph's finest hour came at the same time as his father's-during World War II. Displaying what one of his commanders called "foolish courage," Randolph volunteered for a commando raid hundreds of miles behind enemy lines in North Africa. Then in 1943, defying capture by the Germans, he slipped several times by boat and parachute into enemy-occupied Yugoslavia, where he served as his father's personal envoy to Marshal Tito's partisan bands-a service that made him a Member of the Order of the British Empire, the country...