Word: foolishness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Alarming News. Khrushchev says that in the spring of 1962, at a meeting in the Kremlin, he spoke about how Cuba's Fidel Castro had resisted the Bay of Pigs landing only a year earlier. "I said that it would be foolish to expect the inevitable second invasion to be as badly planned and executed as the first. I warned that Fidel would crushed and said we were the only ones who could prevent such a disaster from occurring." Khrushchev found another justification: "The Americans had surrounded our own country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons...
...doodles took the forms of Boob McNutt, Mike and Ike and Foolish Questions. By 1922, Goldberg was earning well over $100,000 a year and had been syndicated by McNaught and King Features. In 1948 he won a Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon called Peace Today, warning of the perils of atomic weapons. But politics did not suit him, and though there were flashes of wit, he gave...
Hunneman Realty, manager of much of Harvard's property, also manages Brazao's apartment. "It would be foolish to say that Brazao is a slum lord and therefore should be removed from Hunneman's list because Harvard is one, too," Cunningham said...
Still, when she pleads at play's end, "I'm too young to die," she's certainly got the best line. The wonder is that The Three Musketeers can get away with such foolishness. It's all so blatantly foolish that the usual objections one feels compelled to raise when faced with such trifling Leeb confections-that so much effort should be directed toward so trivial an end-become a kind of joke. So then. One for all and all for one? Right...
...made some foolish mistakes tonight, and we're going to have to work to correct them," said head coach Bob Harrison after the game. "But I'd rather have this kind of game than win by 50 points, get complacent, and then have to face Dartmouth who'll be flying high for us," he went...