Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, when the ban on correspondents' trips to Quemoy (TIME, Sept. 29) was lifted, Choi limped over the hill from the hospital and headed for the docks, after sending a plaintive note of apology to a friend: "I will take care of myself and try not to be foolish...
Dulles told his news conference Chiang Kai-shek was foolish to commit one-third of his Nationalist armed forces to Quemoy and the other offshore islands now being pounded by Red artillery. But Dulles conceded this government acquiesced. The secretary dashed cold water on Chiang's oft-repeated determination to wrest the China mainland from the Communists. Dulles said Chiang's return "is a highly hypothetical matter...
...Send not your foolish and feeble; send
...inventor might put together a machine aimed at destruction, and might be tempted to try it. This we should stop in time." In the Hungarian pavilion, a panorama of Budapest called up Voroshilov's warmest memories: "What a beautiful city, what a beautiful country! But such foolish things have happened there. Some people have called it counterrevolution; some called it revolution. I think it was just foolishness. Perhaps it would have been possible not to give Imre Nagy such a harsh sentence, because he was just a fool...
...uninformed man, and the most determined to remain so." His "deception and duplicity," says Gavin, let him conceal slashes in combat-ready divisions by creating "Wilson" divisions out of paper groups of troops as far apart as Fort Benning, Ga. and the Panama Canal Zone. Wilson made good a foolish assurance to Congress that no additional soldiers were needed for Formosan defense, charges Gavin, by shipping groups over without shoulder patches...