Word: fools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feeling that he would lose votes in direct proportion to the number of people he talked to, decided first to hold a press conference in a Boston hotel, then to hold a private reception in another hotel, and then finally to cancel the entire Boston trip. He was no fool...
Italy is sunnily tolerant of sexual peccadilloes; in a land without divorce, why should an unhappily married man of wealth and influence not be allowed a mistress? What an Italian politician must guard against is making a brutta figura -roughly, a fool of himself. The late Communist Party boss, Palmiro Togliatti, left his wife to live with a woman 27 years younger than he; yet his standing in politics was unaffected. By contrast, Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani was forced to resign from office in 1965 simply because his wife made a mistake. The right-wing magazine Il Borghese published...
Previously Arts And Letters had won--some say stolen--the Belmont Stakes. The odds against him were eight to five. The policemen that day were Majestic Prince, Prime Fool, Distray, Dike, and Rooney's Shield. A medieval lot. The best of this assortment was found wanting by five and a half lengths when the little terror romped across the finish...
...feeling that he would lose votes in direct proportion to the number of people he talked ro, decided first to hold a press conference in a Boston hotel, then to hold a private reception in another hotel, and then finally to cancel the entire Boston trip. He was no fool...
...record fool you. The next time this horse is entered against a sharp classy New York sprinter with a seemingly mediocre record--beware! Indeed, MISTY RUN, a recruit from last year's Saratoga claiming ranks--a horse who has acquitted himself favorably against tough New York opposition--may fill the ticket...