Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...engines, most of the women concentrated on the upholstery. Some showed a lack of reverence toward the whole show, as did one female who stopped a salesman in mid-spiel by nudging her husband and saying. "Let's go buy a TV set." If they did, they were foolish. They should have waited for the raffle...
...amateur publicists who liked to talk about "what the economy will stand" and "what public opinion will approve," without knowing any of the answers. In doing so, they had been diverted from their prime function of telling the country what it needed to survive. Right after Korea, pound-foolish Louis Johnson had repentantly told the Joint Chiefs to shoot the works. Then George Marshall, taking over in September in the optimistic days of the Korean war, had ordered a careful re-sighting on all grand plans. The re-sighting held things up even more, but, the nation could only hope...
...workers), hatched a Government crisis. Despite all the Agriculture Department could do to curb them, hens have laid 270 million dozen more eggs than in the same period last year. The nation will not buy enough eggs at the current high prices, so-under the mad terms of a foolish farm law-the Government has to buy the leftovers, dry them and stuff them into caves and warehouses, with all the powdered eggs left over from other years...
...remain a wishy-washy wordster forever. A humdrum little tale by Henry James, The Death of the Lion, gives no indication of the labyrinthine richness he was able to manage when he felt like it. To the contemporary eye, only George Gissing's grim story of spinsterhood, The Foolish Virgin, seems fit to rank with the best of The Yellow Book painters and draftsmen (Beardsley, Sickert, Beerbohm, Sargent, Steer, Cotman, Guys...
...born Hans ("Dean of Radio Commentators") von Kaltenborn went into radio in the breathless, carbon-mike '20s. In the course of his news gathering, he had an opportunity to rub elbows and knock heads with some of contemporary history's greatest heroes and biggest heels. With no foolish pretense to modesty, Fifty Fabulous Years recalls some of his most colorful experiences...