Word: fools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misgivings, death came to the federation on New Year's Eve. Next day at noon, 2,000 Africans gathered for a mock funeral. Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda, boss of Nyasaland's Malawi Congress Party, told his cheering supporters, "I mean to rule. I shall allow no stupid fool to destroy what I've built up. If to do this is to be a dictator, make the most of it!" Then his followers set fire to a coffin representing the federation and the ashes were thrown into the Shire River, which, in the words of the Malawi News...
...next five years, Fuller worked out of Chicago for a company set up to market a building material invented by his father-in-law. They actually put up 240 houses, and Bucky learned a lot about building, but he was a hopelessly poor executive and as much of a fool about money as he had been at Harvard-living wildly beyond his means and rapidly laocoönizing himself in debts and superdebts. He was also hitting the bottle. "The minute I was through work for the day," he has written of that period, "I would go off and drink...
...Glitter. Guarded by bank-vault-type doors, electric-eye burglar alarms and "footmen" whose blue-and-silver waistcoats bulge with shoulder-holster Lugers, the new Schatzkam-mer operates with little fanfare. "Too much publicity," explains Director Hans Thoma, "might only attract some fool Rififi who might take a crack at the wealth. The public should come gradually, not because they are intrigued by the glitter, but because of the artistic pleasure it gives to see so much precious beauty assembled...
...mein Herr. Unlike other smugglers, they do not usually seek to avoid customs altogether, in stead try to beat down the duty they have to pay by a host of wily methods. They lie on their declarations, and use forged documents, doctored contracts, paper shuffling and tricky bookkeeping to fool the customs men. Their schemes often involve bringing in cheaper merchandise from behind the Iron Curtain: canned meat from Poland and Yugo slavia, steel, machinery and porcelain from East Germany, heating pipe from Hungary and even camel hair that probably originates somewhere in Asiatic Russia...
...Diefenbaker had only distrust. He privately called President Kennedy "that young fool," says Newman, and when Kennedy made a state visit to Ottawa in 1961, the welcome was chilly. At a breakfast meeting, Kennedy showed Diefenbaker a five-item U.S. "working paper" for the talks (samples: inviting Canadian support for the Alliance for Progress, more Canadian backing for foreign aid). Diefenbaker neatly wrote "no" beside each item. Later Kennedy misplaced the paper. Diefenbaker found and kept...