Word: foolishness
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...United States would be foolish to get involved in any "silly game of reprisals" resulting from France's veto of Britain's application for membership in the European Economic Community, Stanley H. Hoffmann, associate professor of Government, declared yesterday...
...eagle (22). Since all the matches but one in all three series are already on film, a shrewd gambler might try to get to a cameraman or assistant producer to find out who won. Then all he'd have to do is find a sucker at air time foolish enough...
...superb performances are the sole merit of the overlong and confusing Tunes of Glory, but they make the entire film worthwhile. Under the spell of Alec Guinness and John Mills, one remains unperturbed by the foolish complexities that James Kennaway has tossed together as a plot, or the familiar characterizations of all the other actors...
...gained a small advantage in Latin America. If the Administration wants to keep it, it would be immensely foolish not to realize that simple anti-Cuban propaganda fries no Latin pancakes. The Information Agency has evidently learned to prefer education to proselytizing that merely aggravates South American prejudices; the State Department and visiting Congressmen should follow its example...
Comfort & Facts. The preschool child is too young to be comforted by reason. Just as it does no good to insist "There are no ghosts," it is not enough to say, "Don't be foolish-this is a drill, not an air raid." What seems to help most at this age, says Dr. Escalona, is a bedtime story, an extra cookie, a night light, and the knowledge that mother is not far away...