Word: fools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then yowl "Mama" when run down. You are breeding a race of monsters, nurtured in a diseased way of life that is based upon atom bombs, crime comics, bad movies and the cult of the almighty dollar . . . This is what you want to foist upon the world . . . You fool only your own "booboisie...
...with these words sent British troops into Korea in 1950 to repel Communist aggressors: "They talk of freedom while they murder it. They talk of peace while they support aggression. They are ruthless and unscrupulous hypocrites who pretend to virtues which their philosophy rejects." "They won't fool old Clem," said pub pundits with satisfaction...
...might annoy the U.S. (which he has-often done) or he might make a fool of himself (ditto). But baiting the U.S. is always a politically profitable exercise in Britain. As for making a fool of himself, Britons have never condemned any statesman for going anywhere with the hand of friendship extended-not even (at the time) Neville Chamberlain...
...males whom men forget and only tailors remember, the girl who sits high above the town in her pet pailletted gown, deep in the depths on the 90th floor. Sometimes, love can be as fiercely direct, almost formal, as an angry letter: "Don't you know, little fool, you never can win? Use your mentality! Wake up to reality!" And occasionally, in a kind of straight, asphalt lyricism, Porter can out-hammer even Hammerstein in the game of simplicity...
...tougher followers drove him half-crazy simply by knowing that he was incapable of being the man he pretended to be. When the Duce tried to conduct the Ethiopian war from his office chair, Marshal Badoglio only growled: "What fool in Rome is telegraphing this rubbish to me?" and curtly cabled back: "Leave me alone...