Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recalled that on June 11, when he told Civiletti that Billy Carter had admitted receiving $220,000 from the Libyans, the Attorney General had ordered him to "wait ten days and see what happens." Six days later, as Civiletti has said, he warned the President that his brother was "foolish" for not registering as a foreign agent (Billy finally did so on July...
...clergy clowns find a theological justification for their unusual ministry in the injunction of St. Paul to the Corinthians to become "fools for Christ's sake" because God has "made foolish the wisdom of the world." They discern multilayered analogies between the clown and Christ: the clown's joy in living and mimed delight in simple things, like the scent of a flower, for instance, recall Jesus' command to "consider the lilies of the field, how they grow." The simplicity and childlike persistence of the clown can have a special meaning for Christians. "The clown refuses...
...unthinkable that this country would allow its attention to be diverted from the crucial issues generated by an election year and focus instead on the shenanigans of the President's foolish brother...
...just talked to Wagner himself. "You hear that goddam offer," Jordan said angrily. "I told him to go to hell." Then he stopped and said, "I probably shouldn't have said it." Strauss assured him he had said exactly the right thing, that the proposal was foolish...
...diplomat takes a dun view of the American-led boycott, but insists that he is "totally committed" to having the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. For his part, Killanin was a good deal more acerbic about President Carter's campaign to trip up the Moscow Games. Also foolish. He maintained that if the program had included football and baseball, the Americans would have participated...