Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others were awaiting arraignment, the students became calmer and more cautious, and order returned to the streets. Telephone and telegraph facilities were strained to the limit, with messages from students to parents, and parents to city officials. Most were angry, but one father told the police: "Keep the damn fool in jail. I'll be down in three days...
...Being the villain, he finds, helps him "get rid of a lot of anxiety," and besides, a basso's roles are more convincing dramatically. "Can you imagine," he says, "having to make something out of a character as stupid as Leonora? I'd feel a perfect fool...
...Silly Fool. The Cohens and their Russian boss took their punishment with a certain professional pride. Master Spy Lonsdale even made an effort to shoulder all the guilt himself, insisting that the espionage equipment in the Ruislip house was his and had been put there without the Cohens' knowledge. The Cohens, though protesting their innocence, refused to submit to crossexamination...
...clerk at the Portland base, showed far less bravado. In an attempt to cut his own sentence, Houghton tried to turn Queen's evidence at the expense of the others, including his fiancee. Ethel Gee sounded brusque and matronly as she protested she was just a silly little fool who had been under Houghton's thumb. The Lord Chief Justice scornfully told her: "I think you acted, not out of blind infatuation, but for greed." Each was sentenced to 15 years...
President Eisenhower "nearly proved Abe ," Washington columnist Drew Pearson told an audience last night. He claimed Eisenhower that "you can fool all of the people--for at least years...