Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fool or Knave? Early last week somebody leaked the story of Strauss's maneuvering to the New York Times's Correspondent Cyrus L. Sulzberger. The infuriated Spanish press charged that Sulzberger's source was NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak, "a Socialist and an old enemy of the Spanish regime," and that the whole thing was a Jewish-Masonic plot. With undisguised delight, Russia's Tass bayed that "the two most reactionary states in Europe" had concluded "a backstage deal ... to obstruct the relaxation of international tensions...
...London News Chronicle concluded that Strauss had been "more of a fool than a knave"; the Economist decided that West Germany's disregard of foreign susceptibilities was probably more lack of imagination than indifference. More serious was the widespread suspicion that the Strauss plan was Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's way of serving notice that if the Western powers failed to stand up to Russia over Berlin, or otherwise took insufficient note of German concerns, West Germany would make political and military arrangements outside the alliance...
...into the world to preach the Word. He especially charged him to baptize his city cousin, an idiot child whose schoolteacher father is a sweaty atheist. At the thought of this mission, young Tarwater is torn. An inner voice tells him that the old man was a fool or worse. He gets drunk, sets fire to the house, where the old man is still sitting dead at the breakfast table, and finally heads for the city...
Days of Adventure. Second Lieut. Quesada was a flying fool. After the hot-pilot fashion of the day, he barreled under most of the bridges between Washington and New York. He never missed a chance at extra flying duty, and he quickly amassed a reputation for being brash, undiplomatic and vain (there are many oldtime comrades who have found no reason to change that judgment...
...complaints against four major national advertisers (Standard Brands, Colgate-Palmolive, Alcoa and Lever Bros.), three advertising agencies (Manhattan's Ted Bates & Co. and Foote, Cone & Belding, and Pittsburgh's Ketchum, MacLeod & Grove), and Foote, Cone's Vice President William H. Bambric. The charge: trickery designed to fool the TV viewer...