Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...required 20-20 vision, qualified though he might be in ability, training, and in enthusiasm and eagerness to serve, was left out in the cold. For a pilot, a bombardier, or a deck officer the regulation seemed thoroughly justified; for a number of other jobs, it seemed disconcertingly foolish...
...When all the contrasts between the air war now and then have been drawn, it would be foolish-and might be disastrous -to conclude that any of these changes in our favor are necessarily permanent. The Luftwaffe has certainly suffered enormous losses in Russia . . . but it is most doubtful whether they are enough to prevent switching over the main force of the Luftwaffe for renewed attacks on our own country...
...Nazis all Europe's eternal tat-tat-tat-tooing was foolish and exasperating. First the Nazis tried to suppress or ignore it. Growled Norway's Quisling Propaganda Minister Gudbrand Lunde: "Don't think you will win the war by making silly noises in restaurants." In France 6,000 people were arrested for distributing paper Vs. Then Germany's Propaganda Chief Paul Joseph Goebbels had what he thought was a bright idea, or perhaps it was given to him by a visiting friend. Italy's Popular Culture Minister Alessandro Pavolini, who was also on the receiving...
...engine that Britain has yet devised. This did not mean that the U.S. already has the best air craft engines in the world- far from it. But it meant that, rightly or wrongly, responsible officials thought the U.S. engines now coming up were so promising that it would be foolish to try experimenting in new fields...
Burton was a cross between Byron and Major Hoople-a proud, fierce, foolish, gifted man with one streak of true genius -a genius for failure. Isabel, like her husband, was a rebel, but of a far more conventional sort. Her rebelliousness began like the romantic dreams of any English Backfisch; it was her great distinction that she stuck by them. And her dreams, after a fashion, stuck...