Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese civilians, and no soldiers, were foolish enough to think that in two weeks of operation Chennault had broken the aerial back of the Jap. The force was too small, the pace too heavy, and the Jap was busy about many things. The China Air Force had given the world only a token of what air power could do in China. Newcomer Haynes told newspapermen what many an oldtime China pilot already knew: with more bombers, more fighters, the Jap could be pushed back into...
...talk, Colonel George F. Doriot, professor of Industrial Management at the Business School, now head of the Resources Division of the Quartermaster Corps in Washington, said "Mistakes mean money in business, but at war, they mean lives. That is why we need trained men and why it is foolish for men to leave college...
...France under the Pretender, the Comte de Paris. But presently more serious fascists seized the French stage, and the national vaudeville was over. Last November, tired and ailing, Daudet resigned from L'Action, retired to Saint Remy-de-Provence to contemplate the ruins of the fair and foolish democracy which had long enjoyed...
Davis, Henderson and Murray were all sensible practical men. But politics has a way of making practical men do foolish things...
Above all, don't get the idea that Freshmen are to be seen and not heard. That concept has never taken very deep root around the Square, and would be especially foolish now. None of the men around you, Faculty and undergraduates alike, has ever seen a term quite like this before, and most of them are just as much...