Word: foolishness
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...from home, bored, sometimes ill-educated and often frightened. If you are a high-minded imperialist, sooner or later?whether in a village in Kenya, a Casbah in Algiers, or a jail in Baghdad?your young soldiers will get you into trouble. They will do something so foolish or impetuous or horrible that all your good work will be forgotten, and you?and they?will be reviled for it. "In Burma," George Orwell once wrote, "I was constantly struck by the fact that the common soldiers were the best-hated section of the white community, and judged simply by their...
...even as a state legislative committee was studying the machines' reliability. The panel recommended a few weeks ago that the state void all voting-machine contracts and require a newer technology that provides a paper trail of votes cast. Blackwell's spokesman called the committee's move "outrageous and foolish...
...lovable than the real ones, with none of the public-schooled, tight-voweled fustiness. And we get to watch him sleep. No one lasts the full 67 minutes. They meander in, stay five minutes or 20, then meander out again, perhaps because they do not wish to seem foolish or infatuated enough to stick around for the best part of an afternoon. There are no gasps from the crowd as he rearranges his arms, no ripples of delight as a flickering smile drifts across his face. We sit before him in respectful, half-blushing silence. "They said it was like...
...life people have said to me: You’re too small, Cat. You’re not fast enough, Whisp. Give up your foolish dreams, Evan! But you know what? They forgot something — I have...
Admittedly, the notion I’m discussing is a bit abstract. But still, one cannot deny that there exists what can only be described as an intangible—some sort of a x-factor—which renders foolish preview headlines like “M. Bball Expects No Surprises” senseless...