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Word: foolishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirty-five smart people from New York City have flown down to Puerto Rico on an errand that is surpassingly silly but not at all foolish. They are filming a 30-second TV commercial intended to make every woman in Europe, where it will be shown, rush out to the corner parfumerie to buy a scent called Ô de Lancôme. To do this, their script says, they must make Puerto Rico look like the south of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Model Woman. She Gets $9,000 a Day | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

PEORIA, III--Caterpillar Tractor Co. workers will someday see their record six-and-a-half-month strike as "one of the most foolish things that ever happened, "the mayor said after approval of a wage-freeze agreement that reopened the company's plants yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UAW Strike Against Tractor Company Ends; 20,000 Will Return to Work After 6 Months | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

...will come when people look back and see the strike as one of the most foolish things that ever happened," Peoria Mayor Richard Carver said Saturday. The strike against the Peoria-based manufacturer was the UAW's longest against a major company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UAW Strike Against Tractor Company Ends; 20,000 Will Return to Work After 6 Months | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

Filing my federal tax return this year required several hours of work and nine different forms. I was pleased that I detected every legal means of reducing my taxes. But reading your article on cheating, I felt foolish and angry

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 18, 1983 | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...have nothing in common but an over whelming love for her. But something in Jill thrills to the troubles Sheik gets himself into and to the threat he poses to her middle-class dreams. So she allows this Romeo-and-Coquette dalliance to ripen into an attachment that is foolish, masochistic, elemental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Trading Up | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

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