Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accordingly promoted to Colonel at the end. To this reviewer's way of thinking, this lack of a climactic large-scale gun-fight (Ford substituted a middle-scale stampede) is perfectly reasonable; any cavalry captain who would deliberated take on 2000 Arapahoes armed with Winchesters is a foolish man indeed...
...felt a little foolish bustling down the street all dressed in black on that hot day in 1927. But he felt more foolish still when he saw the tall young man in tennis flannels who opened the door of the dean's house...
...baths, then stand around in a drafty passage for half an hour undried, wearing bathing suits. Then they put on wet socks. In the first test, the chilled volunteers caught the cold virus more readily than those who were kept snug and warm. But, said Dr. Andrewes, "we were foolish enough to repeat this experiment-with a contrary result." The only positive finding: chilling alone produces no colds...
...Nevertheless," Fairbank said, "It would be foolish for the United States to take a hostile and negative attitude toward the Chinese Communists rather than establishing reasonably friendly relations to keep the economic and cultural ties we still have with China...
...coal mines, the factories and the union meetings. Britain's parties today have so much in common, a trait which is to a great extent inherent in Parliamentary governments, that the success or failure of either one will rest ultimately on the people at large. It would be foolish to attempt to predict the outcome of the present political skirmish on the basis of devaluation, its results, and the debate. If the Conservatives return to power at the next election, and then manhandle devaluation, the laborites will have a strong talking point in succeeding elections. Whatever happens, the pound...