Word: foolishness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sturdily-built sophomore then proceeded to tally 10 of the Crimson's next 12 points to insure the victory. Most of his points came from the foul line, as the youthful Tufts squad committed foolish infractions in a desperate effort to close the widening...
...suspended in mid-air while he faked his man, then got off shots whirring with English that flicked wickedly off the backboard and into the basket. When the need arose, he simply used his football lineman's build (6 ft. 5 in., 235 Ibs.) to overpower any player foolish enough to block his path. In the first quarter alone, Elgin Baylor, 25, Negro star of the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Lakers, scored 15 points against the hapless New York Knicks. At half time, he had 34. By the third quarter...
...very long ago, it was in our power to crush them with a rod of iron, but we forbore in foolish charity and a mistaken belief that, after all, they were men like ourselves. Nothing human-even from New Haven-was alien to us, we said. Overlooking clear signs that the Yalies were indeed what our fathers said they were, we worked hard at trying to understand them. We met them. We talked with them. Compulsive do-gooders among us even read the Yalie Daily. Then came the election and the realization that...
...impeachment-because he failed to get congressional permission before leaving the country to attend the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan. The chances are that the impeachment trial will get pigeonholed by the Senate. The nation is beginning to feel the effect of a stabilized economy, and only a foolish politician would annoy the voters...
...depressing thing about Dean Elder's disapproval of Earl McGrath's proposal to shorten the Ph.D. is that both Elder and McGrath are right. The growing shortage of college and high school teachers is neither imagined nor the result of foolish rules, but the inevitable result of an apparently irresolvable confusion of roles between College and University...