Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evangelist against this foolish suntanning habit," says U.C.L.A. Dermatologist Dr. J. Walter Wilson. "But trying to persuade people to stop lying in the sun for hours is as difficult as getting them to give up smoking." Simply put, suntans may look good but they are very bad medicine. The sun's rays eventually cause the skin to wrinkle and sag, aging effects seen most clearly on the back of a cowboy's neck. The rays also produce lentigines, the brown marks often called liver spots. By far the worst result, however, is skin cancer...
Though some congressional critics had suggested boycotting the speech, Fulbright persuaded them that it would be "foolish" and "disrespectful of the soldiers in Viet Nam." About the only notable absentee was Dirksen, who was stricken with pneumonia after a long spell in his garden on a chilly day and was confined to Walter Reed Army Hospital. Twenty-three Governors, the Joint Chiefs, the diplomatic corps and the entire Cabinet-excepting Rusk, who watched on TV-were on hand...
...film accurately portrays the major sequences of the crime: the initial holdup at London airport to bankroll the big caper; the carefully planned mail call in which not a pound note was overlooked, and the only injury was suffered by a locomotive engineer who proved unexpectedly belligerent; the foolish, post-heist swaggering of the thieves; the burial of the loot in such out-of-the-way places as a church graveyard; Scotland Yard's massive descent upon the scent. At film's end, a voice ominously booms the warning that some of the robbers are still at large...
ruin whole households for a foolish prayer. Devoured by peace, we seek devouring...
...today no such situation exists. Public education in the United States is second to none, and no one is foolish enough to assert that people attend prep schools because of educational equality back home. For, indeed, where do the bulk of such students come? From Brookline and Glen Cove, from Darien and Shaker Heights--the very areas with some of the best public secondary schools in the nation. The graduates of these schools come to Cambridge and New Haven and find themselves in no way less "prepared" than their neighbors who raced off to what Dean Sizer calls "independent" schools...