Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then, I had almost forgotten why I was foolish enough to be in such an unruly place. Oh, that's right. I wanted to go to the Coop...
...Arkansas, is all but spoken for. Lieutenant Governor Jim Guy Tucker, who would become Governor if Clinton is elected, had already $ polished off his 1993 state budget and received visiting agency heads at the state capitol last week. Says Tucker, sounding like many veteran Washington Democrats: "It would be foolish to not be prepared...
...their motivation: they're not guilty of irredentism -- a desire to recover lands lost long ago -- but merely of paranoia and myopia. The situation has all the makings of tragedy, which Aristotle, another great Macedonian who was Alexander's teacher, defined as the result not of wickedness but of foolish pride...
...committee tried to please everyone by embracing a loophole that seems to wash Harvard's hands of ROTC while still allowing students to participate in the program. But by stepping around an issue instead of addressing what should be a clear moral decision, it ends up looking foolish and acting spineless...
...Augustine defined all lies as sins because they misused God's gift of speech. In a better world than this one, people would agree and act accordingly. In fact, in a better world lies would not be necessary at all, since the truth would be self-evident and foolish to deny or attempt to refute. The world we have discourages such certainties. Lies will continue to be told, as will the difficulty of recognizing them as such. But some modicum of trust will probably also survive, as it has through notable periods of lying in the past. When the perception...