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Word: foolishnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard mobilized its "And the Children shall lead them" offense at 13:09. Freshman Greg Olsen made Constantine look foolish for the first and last time when he took a Mike Watson pass alone at the blue line and waited for the goalie to go down before flicking a pretty shot in between his pads...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Engineers Hand Icemen First Setback | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...enhance Ohira's stature, either in the Diet or in his own party. Fumed one L.D.P. member: "At first, I didn't think he should resign, but later I decided he should-not because of the election, but because he made our party look so damn foolish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Bull Survives | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...were silly like us," Auden wrote of Irish Poet William Butler Yeats, but the truth is that Yeats was sillier, more willing to appear foolish and embrace mumbo jumbo in service to his art. Auden's way was very different, circumspect; his poetry achieved greatness but never reached out for Yeatsian grandeur. He wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Leader of the Gang | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...public firm can also call the major private oil bureaucracies disloyal. During the Yom Kippur War and the Arab oil embargo, American oil companies demonstrated they will not put their home country first--they restricted deliveries to the U.S. proportionally more than to other customers. It is simply foolish to leave all control of a commodity vital to our industry and military in the hands of men understandably motivated by profit alone. The traditional conservative concern for national security should be harnessed to support a federal oil company...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach, | Title: All-American Oil | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

...lack of intensity was reflected by penalties in some crucial situations, such as a fumble recovery by defensive end Tony Finan that was negated by the defensive line jumping offsides. "We had some foolish penalties," Restic said...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Defense's Doomsday | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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