Word: foolishness
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...show - and they did not like what they saw. "Kill them! Shoot them! Commie!" cried the gang. They surged forward, knocking some of the demonstrators to the ground and slugging and kicking them until the cops finally arrived to rescue them. Said a veteran police captain: "Anyone foolish enough to commit such an unpatriotic gesture in South Boston can only expect what these people got." Later, in court to face charges stemming from an earlier sit-in at the Boston Army Base, the protesters were found guilty of loitering. Nine of them began serving jail sentences rather than...
...those up front has a little basis in fact, but the passenger can do better by sitting close to an emergency exit. Above all, he should swallow his shyness and ask questions. He should not imitate Comedian Mort Sahl's timid traveler who would "rather die than look foolish." The annals of the air are filled with stories of people who led many other passengers out of a crash simply because they had troubled to find out about emergency doors...
...with a scythe and laughed heartily. Yeh used a handkerchief to cover the lower part of her body. When the victims began to shiver with the cold, Yang cried out: "You can warm up by running around the basketball court once!" [Yang was later arrested and tried for "foolish, ridiculous actions...
...seem early to be counting convention votes and foolish to ignore a very canny President's ability to name his Vice-President as successor. (After all, even Eisenhower could do that.) But as a lame duck, Lyndon Johnson will find his political capital gravely diminished. He will not be able to play his 1964 trump, for there is no reason whatever to believe that Hubert Humphrey in 1972 will have anything like the popular support...
...shouted "Happy New Year" to each other. Market mammies waddled through the streets in a boisterous procession. The Trades Union Congress spent one night piling socialist literature onto a giant bonfire in front of their headquarters, turned out the next day for a delirious march through town, chanting "Nkrumah, foolish...