Word: foolishnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every stop. He also paused to reflect on how Secretary of State William Henry Seward had bought the territory for a mere $7.2 million from Czar Alexander II in 1867. In the U.S., Dobrynin noted, the deal "was known as Seward's Folly, but Alexander was known as foolish in my own country long before he sold Alaska. Sometimes we feel it's another proof of how stupid czars were." Dobrynin then cheered himself with the observation that the Soviet Union is big enough as is. "Our Alaska is Siberia," he said. "It's bigger than...
...next day. No one learned a little something about the nuances of diplomacy over coffee and donuts. Actually, the reason for this "blackout" of Nye's talk was quite simple. Nye--who like most human beings is ambitious and probably fears the fate of being misinterpreted and appearing foolish in the press--announced quietly before his speech that everything he would say was to remain "off-the-record" and not reported in any newspaper in any way. Accordingly, the journalists in the room, feeling some vague sense of obligation and ethical responsibility, wrote nary a word for the next...
...funds for abortions in Massachusetts. Flynn finished very poorly in the 1975 council race, but with the publicity garnered by his anti-abortion bill, he changed the rules of rabblerousing somewhat, using the issue to get his name in print rather than to create mass hysteria. It would be foolish, however, to discount the campaign help many right-to-lifers gave...
Despite the apparent disadvantages, though, one would be foolish to discard Harvard's chances. The same psychological factors that worked against the Crimson a week ago are now in its favor. For one thing, Brown is favored. For another, Harvard hates, make that absolutely despises, losing to Brown...
...gave Rosemary cancer of the breast, said Alison to herself, aloud, to see how the words sounded. They did not sound very foolish...