Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thus know each other's moves almost instinctively. Robert has adapted quickly and is the line's best backchecker. Defense against them is a problem. "You can put out a checking line against some other team's best line," says Gibbs, "but it's foolish to try to check these guys-Perreault's just too good with the puck...
...agonizing task of building a healthy program cannot be done overnight, nor can it be accomplished without damaging the people responsible for the present one. It would be foolish however, to even consider the current program righting itself without major changes, for as I have pointed out, it is doomed...
...hard to think of Debbie Reynolds as Charlotte, but remember, we only hear her voice. She has the same strong, clear, warm tones that Charlotte had, so I must applaud the choice. Henry Gibson sounds just as slow and foolish as Wilbur himself. Paul Lynde portrays me. I understand he has a weekly television show, and he certainly is funny. I have always thought, however, that I sounded much more like Laurence Olivier...
TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT is a very foolish, fond old movie. Written by an aging Graham Greene and directed by an aged George Kukor, it is altogether an old man's work--an embrace of a glamorous era long dead, a last grand grinning caper through it. Whether it lays claims to any purpose beyond sheer diversion is a mystery, and Greene's novel lacks a clue...
...larger service-oriented population, also politicians who are not afraid to battle for real ideas. McGovern, for whom I voted is not necessarily a stronger man, but in some ways he had a larger vision. He was willing to be innovative." Suddenly he says thoughtfully, "I'm being foolish. I can afford to be idealistic, I suppose...