Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney General Edward Levi's continuing efforts to put tighter controls on FBI investigations. Levi has slashed the agency's requested 1976 budget increase for counterespionage activities from $11 million to $4.4 million, opened up certain secret files to congressional probers, and criticized past FBI excesses as "foolish and sometimes outrageous." In an attempt to deal with the resentment, TIME has learned, FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley summoned the chiefs of the bureau's 59 field offices to an extraordinary meeting in Washington last week...
...management. It lapses occasionally into self-pity, and more often into triviality (like her straight-faced remark that "I have never been happy in a place where I didn't like the smell"). But Quinn generally keeps a perspective that is detached enough to expose her own foolish moments along with those of the business people...
...impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with which you would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid long, slow slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling...
...been a forthright spokeswoman for the Equal Rights Amendment and liberalized abortion laws, and has calmly brushed aside the criticism she knew would be coming. "When somebody asks you how you stand on an issue, you're very foolish if you try to beat around the bush-you just meet yourself going around the bush the other way." On the other hand, she admits that when she occasionally disagrees with her husband, she "wouldn't want to embarrass him by opposing his position [in public]. That I'll do in the privacy of our own sitting room...
...Belmont Park for the much-ballyhooed mile-and-a-quarter match race. The contest between the record-breaking three-year-old filly Ruffian, winner in all ten of her starts and holder of the filly's Triple Crown for 1975, and the Kentucky Derby-winning colt Foolish Pleasure was a perfect Him v. Her extravaganza for the 50,764 people at Belmont and for millions watching on CBS, which put up $350,000 to televise the event. Then, 3½ furlongs and some 35 seconds into the race, with Ruffian slightly ahead, there was a sharp snap. "Like...