Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind is apt to go down some wrong paths and to mistake its own reflection for the face of God. Much of the time, those errors are nothing more than episodes of the human comedy. Occasionally they become something worse. This is what happened at Rancho Santa Fe, where foolish notions hardened into fatal certainties. In the arrival of Comet Hale-Bopp, the cult members saw a signal that their lives would end soon. There are many things about which they were badly mistaken. But on that one intuition, they made sure they were tragically correct...
...openly alleged that followers of Applewhite were driven to insanity; subtly, it has pushed a message of intolerance toward obscure faiths of all stripes. In an editorial last Saturday titled "Gateway to Madness," The New York Times called Applewhite's beliefs "ad hoc mumbo jumbo" and his believers "wounded, foolish followers...
...from a prominent Connecticut family who often, openly discussed his membership in the cult with his family a "wounded, foolish follower"? Or the professor's son who told his mother he could not see himself fitting in with traditional society, and felt at home with Heaven's Gate? Or the mother from Cincinatti, who spotted Applewhite's writings on the Internet and felt compelled to leave her three boys and newborn twin girls to join the group? For their sake, if not for all 39 of the dead, we should stifle a bit of our condescension and maintain the humility...
...ball in the hole somehow." Palmer's round came apart after he tried to hit the ninth green in two from a bad lie and pulled the ball out of bounds, leading to a triple bogey. "If I play in a tournament," says Palmer, "I'm still foolish enough to think that I can win." And though they are both fiercely competitive, they seem to like nothing more than a friendly game of golf with cronies. Palmer's doctors told him no golf for six weeks, so on Day 43 he was back out on the course. Woods enjoys playing...
...sophistry." Yale's president, Benno Schmidt, wrote, "This looks like a blatant merit scholarship to me," prompting Princeton's president, William Bowen, to sniff during a deposition, "I would really not have thought a person as well trained in the law as Mr. Schmidt would make such a blatantly foolish assertion...