Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...didn't fool anybody. Men, women, and children--they all watched him begin the four-hour program with a demonstration which included every phase of the weightlifter's art. During the course of this exhibition, George attempted to break his personal military press record on 240 pounds. But instead, the bar slipped halfway up, and Massios almost broke his foot, instead...
Houghteling worshipped legalistic and he resolved to make the extra-curricular rules legally fool-proof. His committee, together with Watson, toyed with the regulations for two years. Last March, after Houghteling had left College on a leave of absence, Watson and the council subcommittee uncorked their rules...
...member party. The rat-race for power began as soon as the underlings realized the extent of the chief's illness. The faction urging a tough Communist line pushed their senior member, Andre Marty. But though Marty is a reliable fanatic, he is an inflexible fool save in his specialty: barricade-building and street fighting. Auguste Lecoeur, one of the party's four secretaries, emerged as the compromise choice. Though a graceless militant, he was Thorez' protege and, like Thorez, had come up through mine-union politics. But the last word, of course, was Moscow...
...Brown bear learned something Saturday: "It doesn't pay to fool around with Malcolm Holmes...
Catchwords and phrases from Li'l Abner such as "amoozin but confoozin," "as any fool can plainly see," "natcherly" and both "sob" and "gulp" used as spoken expletives, have become immovably anchored in American idiom. His Shmoos and Kigmies are as easily identifiable to most Americans as cantaloupes and cows...