Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People came out of the Chapel, across the Yard. Vag slipped down to one group, heading south to sing some more, and crossed back over Massachusetts Avenue with them. There were the stores again, still garish, but they looked foolish now, alone against the bigness of the night. The lights above the sidewalk were dim if you set them against the Dipper, high and very bright indeed...
...ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only a total of 160 days in 1949. They had lost some $450 million in wages. Their $150 million welfare fund, drained by 15 months of foolish, freehanded spending, was all but exhausted and all payments had been stopped. For such mighty sacrifices the miners had gained back exactly nothing. Unable to crack the operators' united front, Lewis had had to beat a retreat...
...lost face in China because of recent developments?" The question was broad enough to touch another sore point: U.S. helplessness over the shabby treatment of Consul General Angus Ward (TIME, Nov. 21 et seq.). Acheson flushed with anger. He replied, with heavy irony, that "face" was a particularly foolish Oriental conception which suddenly seems to have seized the American mind, that you can lose wars, you can lose honor and lose everything else, but to lose face seems to be terrible. It was a particular form of Orientalism of which he was not guilty, he said tartly...
...fact that the Church would allow weaklings like Pascal to die in her bosom shows how charitable and maternal she is even to her most foolish children once they are sorry for their mistakes...
Conservatism has a real solid, negative value. It can offer reasoned objections to foolish proposals. Every proposal for improving society should pass through the fire of conservative criticism. Were there no conservatives available for this process, we would have to invent them somehow or other...