Word: foolish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Europe and Britain's possible role in the Common Market, the Labor government decided to go decimal. Both the pound and the penny would be preserved. "It would be a matter of regret," said then Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, "if such expressions as 'Pennywise, pound-foolish' and 'Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves' were to lose their meaning." But instead of 240 pennies, the pound would consist of 100 new pennies...
...Foolish Elders. To prepare Britons for the changeover, involving three new silver coins and three bronze ones (see chart), the Decimal Currency Board launched a $3,000,000 educational campaign. Posters went on display in 950 cities and towns. Fifteen million copies of a decimal currency guide were sent to households throughout the country, including booklets in Welsh and Braille. Television spots urged: "Think decimal!" The BBC put a 13-year-old schoolboy named Sebastian on its breakfast program to explain to his foolish elders how simple decimalization is. Listeners loathed...
...these predictions seem so plausible that they have already taken on the color of conventional wisdom. The contemporary prophets may well turn out to be right. But there are some factors that ultimately might make the forecasts look foolish indeed. At least part of the Japanese economic miracle, for instance, is the product of Japan's desire to imitate and beat the West. If the West decided that prosperity was no longer its goal, would Japan run so fast? Or, all by itself, might affluence dull the Japanese dedication to work? In other industrial countries, changing social attitudes that...
...this foolish world there's often senseless grieving...
...supposes that the number of our friends is to be counted by the number of our embraces; and as for the nonsense of the proceeding, the truth of the well-known rhyme about "a little nonsense" and "the wisest men" shows that if any wish to be foolish they have good precedent therefor, and if not, no one compels them to attend the exercises at the tree...