Word: fools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next good workout was the next Monday, April Fool's Day, when I ran 8 1/2 miles without problems. It was spring recess, and I was in Cambridge since I was a coxswain of sorts for the freshman lightweights. I was running evenings around the paths of the Yard, averaging 5 miles. It was still strictly minor league...
...thrill in front of the audience, especially after all my training alone. I'd seen someone a bit ahead and notice myself speeding up until I went by him. It became a game. People along the route, some of them, seemed to be playing their own little game: fool the runners. They were a minority and meant well I think, but gave incorrect information on the distance we have covered. Somewhere out there I was sure I had done 15 miles and asked a cop as I went by him. "This is the 10-mile point," he said. This irritated...
...gone out from the White House that until the economy is cooled off every other problem, however pressing, must be subordinate to it. "It has to be dealt with," Urban Adviser Pat Moynihan said last week. "There is no liberal or conservative position on it. Only a damned fool would ignore the problem...
...cruel tricks of the Viet Cong. One of them is to force peasants into a clearing and make them hold up signs proclaiming their allegiance to the Viet Cong. "The V.C. want the peasants to die," explains Anh, "so they can say that we killed them. But we fool the V.C. We know V.C. hide in the bushes, so we fire into the bushes and not at the peasants in the field...
Calais to Coromandel. A painter, poet and fantasist, Lear-as Vivien Noakes' biography makes clear-was a kindly, gifted man in many ways as mocked by madness and petty affliction as Shakespeare's eponymous king. The later Lear, however, played his own gentle fool; his tragedy was wistful farce. When he died in 1888, he left a jumble sale of assorted scribblings, some illustrated travel books rarely looked at any more and A Book of Nonsense, containing verses that will be heard as long as a rattle sounds in the cradle...