Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Javits has decided that it isn't going to happen. For one thing, a man simply does not actively seek the vice-presidency, and Javits concluded that he was making himself look a little foolish. The vice-presidency "is no longer a hot subject," he said in an interview last week. "My present political concern is re-election"-meaning a run for a third Senate term next year...
...which-a 375-ft. fly ball by Cincinnati's Tony Perez-gave the National League a one-run lead in the top half of the 15th inning. To preserve that lead in the bottom of the 15th, National League Manager Walter Alston did what seemed to be a foolish and romantic thing. He called on Righthand Pitcher Tom Seaver, 22, a smooth-cheeked rookie from the last-place New York Mets. A fly ball, a walk, another fly and a strikeout later, young Tom strutted off the mound with the game ball clutched happily in his hand...
...following an order if it "is such that a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know it to be illegal." Moreover, every U.S. serviceman arriving in Viet Nam is given a printed card entitled "The Enemy in Your Hands." It advises bluntly: "It is both dishonorable and foolish to mistreat a captive. It is also a punishable offense...
...points. But many of them are neither original nor entirely valid. He mints a bright aphorism here and there. "Men who believe themselves deeply engaged in private thought are usually doing nothing," he writes. And again: "One should always cherish his critics and protect them where possible from foolish error." But his writing is too often didactic and his logic oversimplified...
...late '40's Hollywood took up not far from where it had left off ten years earlier. Movies like The Best Years of Our Lives, Crossfire, and Gentleman's Agreement (not to mention some of the more foolish ones like Pinky) reflected the same social preoccupations which, if in more outspoken and less glossy terms, had characterized American theatre...