Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McGee started operating on its own in an area where few oilmen had yet ventured: the Louisiana tidelands. Says McGee: "It looked better to us than staying on land, where the first-class spots were already leased and drilled. Some said it took courage. Others just said we were foolish...
...golden desert of the sands, and the sunshine of eternity rang around them . . . For an age-one lonely, solitary, divine and everlasting moment-the full impact of the terrible destiny of his fellowmen struck Falconer between his eyes ... A love for all his brothers, a pity in all their foolish and vain sacrifices, covered his eyes in sorrow and gladness...
...from the table the service her husband will never use again, and mooning mistily on a possible affair with a tall, thin intellectual type. It is a situation in which many Hokinson-type matrons might like to find themselves, but Antonia prefers looking backward to the scenes of her foolish youth, when the worst disaster life had to offer was an unsuitable organdy dress her ringmaster-mother obliged her to wear to a party...
...could continue under the. Communists. Starr's Evening Post even fell for the line that the Reds were really "agrarian democrats" without binding ties to Moscow, went so far as to welcome Mao Tse-tung's army as the beginning of a "true liberation." It was a foolish hope...
...march in the front door, through the bank, out the back door and in the front again. After two or three of these trips the frantic depositors got the desired idea: the bank's hard-money reserves were obviously inexhaustible; their money was safe and their panic foolish...