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Word: foolishnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Truong-Humphrey case indicates not only Carter's maintenance of a foolish Cold-Warrior attitude towards Vietnam, it represents an infringement of civil liberties. For these reasons we condemn the conviction of David Truong and Ronald Humphrey and hope that they will receive a fair trial in their appeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spy Story? | 6/7/1978 | See Source »

...that time of year again. My chance to make all you "baseball experts" out there look so very very foolish. There's really no need to go into detail. This is an incredibly difficult quiz, and while it is neither as long or as well thought out as the gonad-cracker that I served up last spring to you, I'm pretty confident you won't do any better this year. As a matter of fact, I think you'd have a better chance of finding a leather-bound copy of J.H. Parry's Trade and Dominion than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reading Period Baseball Quiz | 5/17/1978 | See Source »

...decided to give a pseudonym, but was somehow unable to think up on on the spur of the moment. For a few minutes, I stood in front of the guest book, drumming my pen, trying to think of a fake name, smiling weakly at Sister Wood. Finally, feeling more foolish than ever, I put down my first and middle names--"Cliff Myer...

Author: By Cliff Sloan, | Title: Mannequins and Mormons | 5/9/1978 | See Source »

...Foolish Grins...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Racquetmen Take Pair Down South... | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...standards that are applied to TV about whites and TV about blacks. Is that an unfairness doctrine, a kind of reverse discrimination? Should shows about blacks be held to a higher standard of relevance, sensitivity and accuracy than those about whites? Though any hard and fast rules would be foolish, an effort to do just that might help correct some deep-seated racial misunderstanding. Whites know about whites, and possess a built-in reality adjuster that makes all the necessary corrections and allowances for exaggeration and stupidity when whites are being portrayed. Blacks know something about whites too. But whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Blacks on TV: A Disturbing Image | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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