Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your kidneys than it is to give one away to a close relative -- a transaction we not only allow but admire. On health grounds alone, you can't ban the sale without banning the gift as well. Furthermore, the sale of a kidney is not necessarily a foolish decision that society ought to protect you from. To pay for a daughter's operation, it seems the opposite...
...early venting of public opinion against the Democratic nominee. Had the governor and his slick advisors been more astute and listened to what the citizens of the Commonwealth had to say, they might have been able to mitigate many of the problems that later plagued his campaign. It seems foolish that politicians would spend so much money on elaborate polling procedures, when they can get an instantaneous update on popular opinion by just flipping on the radio...
...National League. He will preside at owners' meetings, approve players' contracts, supervise the umpires, set proprieties and penalize iniquities. "Whatever historical significance there is in it," said Bill White, 55, a reluctant-sounding pioneer, "if I didn't think I could do this job, I would be foolish to take it. My goal is to be the best president I can be." Of any color...
...Tikkun, "This ("We are not a minority') attitude is just another version of the assimilationist ploy that has been all too fateful for the Jews in the past...the vice of assimilation is that it is always superficial and fragile. Wouldn't it be better to abandon such a foolish enterprise, to give up on false security in order to regain dignity and self-respect...
...said more and more these days, was then. I believe that I am now the only wood-stove bore still active on my mile of dirt road. My neighbors have concluded that full-time wood heating is dirty, dangerous (chain saws are worse tempered than alligators), economically foolish, a champion time waster and brutishly hard work. In this they are correct...