Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Undoubtedly, history's judgment of Westmoreland's generalship will depend in large measure on the outcome of the expected Khe Sanh battle. Some critics feel that defending the remote outpost is a foolish gamble that heavily favors the Communists. "Why fight at Khe Sanh at all?" asks French General André Beaufre, who served for five years in Indo-China. "Logistically, the fight favors the North Vietnamese. You have allowed them once again to choose the time and place of battle...
Sweet November is a little love sto ry that should be fey, funny, touching and bittersweet. Instead it is foolish, lugubrious, sloppy and saccharine. Flashing her little half-smiles in all directions, Sandy is supposed to be a delicious young thing who picks up men and takes them home to share her bed for a month at a time in order to alleviate their hang-ups, or whatever. Anthony Newley is supposed to be an upright box manufacturer who becomes Mr. November...
...invention of increasingly destructive means for the extermination of man by man, someone, somehow, and sometime had to engage in the study of the phenomena of unselfish love, no matter how inadequate were his capabilities or how low the esteem of colleagues for his engaging in such a 'foolish enterprise...
...aboard the plane for Paris. But it was not so easy. First, she discovered, there was no central purchasing agency. "Each policeman had bought his own cape," she says. And when she approached them directly in her faltering French, most Paris flics simply laughed in her face. "I felt foolish, so I flew right home," confesses Mrs. Barry. But once there, she was met with a barrage of accusations. "Everyone-my husband and my friends-accused me of giving up," she says. And so back she flew to Paris, determined to lick the problem...
...most foolish thing I did that week in Saigon was venturing out on a bicycle. If I meet a more harrowing experience in Vietnam between now and the day I leave I'll be very surprised. I found myself competing with American, Korean and ARVN army trucks; with motorscooters and motorcycles, jeeps, cabs, pedicabs, horsecarts, pedestrians, and other cyclists. The trip I took to the market was one long test of nerves and pedal-power as I continually coughed, wheezed and tried to keep fumes and soot out of my eyes...