Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days before starting gates, were atrocious. He liked to rear up on his hind legs and terrify the jockey with his lunging and plunging. But when Red settled down to his tremendous stride (once measured at 24 ft.), he broke track records, and the hearts of ordinary horses foolish enough to race against him. A bargain horse (he cost $5,000), Man o' War won 20 of his 21 starts in his two years of racing...
...foolish "fictionary" of Stoopnagle definitions.' (Examples: avoirduboys-stout fellows; majamas-what mother wears at night; porcuprone-a porcupine lying face down...
...long run, the victims of their own stupidity. A badly defaced book not only annoys the reader, but its usable life is cut from twenty years to a bare three years. With a text shortage still prevalent and the college filled to capacity, students would be foolish to scribble away their education by destroying an irreplaceable stock of references...
False Security. I've been much puzzled to know why it is that the Soviet Government have taken this violently aggressive line. From an external point of view it seems so foolish, and we wonder what is the real motive behind it. I cannot, myself, believe that it is the prelude to war. These 14 men in the Kremlin, who rule with despotic power the vast populations and territories of which they are the masters, are very capable and well informed. If their minds were set on war I cannot believe that they would not lull the easygoing democracies...
...comeuppance, she hopefully wiggles her hips and sings a couple of songs in the manner of a self-consciously refined Betty Hutton. Instead of seizing its opportunity for a few good-natured jabs at the jitterbug cult, Something in the Wind quickly sinks in a welter of foolish movie clichés. Johnny Green's score (best songs: Something in the Wind, I'm Happy Go Lucky and Free, The Turntable Song) has a tough time bucking the script. Several competent supporting actors (Donald O'Connor, Charles Winninger and Margaret Wycherly) stand around looking vaguely embarrassed...