Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moll's pals are as colorful a lot of rogues, ruffians and lairdly wenchers as an ambitious servant girl could wish. In the country, after her master's elder son (Daniel Massey) has blithely ruined her, she marries his foolish brother and is promptly widowed. En route to London, she outwits a dashing highwayman (Richard Johnson) and meets her husband-to-be, George Sanders, who steals the show as a passionate Puritan debilitated by the labors of love. The comedy reaches a peak of unbuttoned ribaldry in a shipboard rendezvous between Moll and her beloved highwayman, interrupted abed...
...perhaps due to Chinese design. As well as anyone in the West, Peking knows the value of psychological warfare. But the Chinese would be foolish to commit themselves to a major ground war against the U.S. at this time. Said one Asia expert: "The benefits to China would be nil; they are now getting all of the advantages [from Viet Nam] with no real risks." And, since it will be at least five years before even the primitive 20-kiloton package exploded at Lop Nor can be delivered onto global targets, it seemed likely that the current Chinese thunder...
...Fool Killer is a "big tall feller" who carries a chopper for chopping fools. His work is cut out for him in this somewhat foolish mystery thriller based on a novel by Helen Eustis...
That blessing has even inspired mighty Cornell to take notice of little Ithaca. "Dillingham's running a doggone tight little ship over there," says a top Cornell administrator. "Their aggressiveness makes us look a little foolish," concedes another...
...wanted to make sure I didn't rub it in." If he didn't, the ninth-place Washington Senators did: they promptly took two out of three from the Yankees. Manager Johnny Keane grimly declared: "Anyone who figures we're washed up is just plain foolish." Maybe so. But the Yankees have yet to play their first game against Al Lopez' red-hot White Sox, who last week won five out of seven games to boost their league lead to 2½ games. In 1964 the Yankees beat the Sox 12 out of 18, and Lopez...