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Word: foolish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...omni-purpose politician's grin. At the middle of the arc, Al's smile turns into a squarely set, unrehearsed-looking deadpan, suitable for framing and hanging in a standup comics' Hall of Fame. And at the bottom of the arc, there's a ferocious scowl, reserved for anyone foolish enough to disrupt the proceedings of the honorable City Council...

Author: By Henry Griggs, | Title: Al Vellucci: Pepperoni and homemade wine | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...nation's coal miners was finally drawing to a close. After 200 local union presidents of the United Mine Workers cast their votes for a return to work, the miners were expected to go back to the pits early this week, ending one of the most foolish strikes in the U.M.W.'s history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Losing End | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...would be a foolish mistake. Ford would lose the South. And a lot of Republicans might not work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: A GAMBLE GONE WRONG | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...Ford tries to buck the mood of the delegates and pick a liberal Northerner, Reagan feels it could tear the convention apart. He personally will oppose such a move. Says he: "It would be a foolish mistake. Ford would lose the South. And a lot of Republicans might not work for him. The balance of the country is in the Sunbelt, and that's where the future of our party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Reagan: 'I Don't Want Another 1964' | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Letch for Sopranos. Buffalo Bill is a foolish figure. Called upon to make speeches when, for example, Sitting Bull joins his troupe or President Grover Cleveland visits it, he turns out to be the master of the grandiloquent opening and the bumbling close ("May the sun never set on this great land, unless it comes up again next morning"). He has a letch for operatic sopranos and a strange hatred of birds, and he is comically unsteady on his snow white charger-especially when he tries to make it rear in the grand manner. One suspects Altman has based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bill Rendered | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

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