Word: foolishness
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...Guarantee. "This transaction," said he, "has obvious benefits for the U.S." Taking note of the fact that U.S. allies in recent weeks have sold between 10 million and 15 million tons of wheat and flour to the Communist bloc, he added: "It would be foolish to halt the sale of our wheat when other countries can buy wheat from us today and then sell it as flour to the Communists." To turn the deal down, added Kennedy later, would only convince the Kremlin "that we are either too hostile or too timid to take any further steps toward peace, that...
...hostess or make a howling clown of himself, because someone was always there industriously to record a momentary superiority to a man who had temporarily made an idiot of himself. He had the further bad fortune to be a romantic and, what is more, a romantic who was foolish enough to marry the heroine of his own novels. Scott's Zelda was the love object a worse and more prudent man would have rejected when the tinsel tarnished. Fitzgerald stayed in love...
Rarely has a Harvard team played such fierce football as in that second quarter when it scored three times. Rarely has a Harvard team looked so foolish as when Milne, on the first play of the second half, broke through right guard after a Wood handoff...
...CONJUGAL BED. There's no fool like an old fool, and it's sometimes painfully funny to see one learn just how foolish he is in this Italian comedy about a middle-aged man (Ugo Tognazzi) who marries a young girl (Marina Vlady...
...protect us from the day when the rantings and ravings of the Mitfords, the Harmers, and the foolish articles appearing in magazines from time to time shall deprive the American buying public of this freedom of choice and right...