Word: silliest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the sun goes down. NBC, however, can be held responsible for the episode, titled Elegy for a Vampire, and for all the other stories in this series. They are consistently dreadful, substituting the chill of boredom for the thrill of suspense. Week after week, this is perhaps the silliest of all the silly hours...
Thus, with a degree of opéra bouffe unusual even for Central America, began another round in what local newspapers have grandiloquently dubbed "the war of the flags." In fact, it is quite possibly the world's silliest international dispute. Nicaragua and Colombia are battling for jurisdiction over Quita Sueño and two smaller islets, Roncador and Serrana-all desolate, uninhabited specks of sand, coral and rock that vanish from sight during high tide...
Peretz called the column "one of the silliest things I've ever seen." Peretz said the article had nothing substantial to say, and was simply a reiteration of Alsop's claim that the Democratic Party is about to be taken over by left-wing irregulars...
...wise man of the West, Konrad Adenauer, is dead and forgotten. Forgotten also is his pearl of wisdom: "Only the silliest calf chooses its own butcher...
...essentially a legislative man, not so much an ideologue as a hierophant of parliamentary procedure. He embodied much that is best and some that is worst-or perhaps silliest-in the American congressional tradition. His talent for the political about-face was acrobatic. Everett McKinley Dirksen, said his Illinois colleague Paul Douglas, "is a man of no principles." Dirksen preferred to call it "flexibility," and that kindlier word, which suggests growth rather than knavery, often proved accurate enough to describe his shifts in policy. During his 35 years in the House and Senate, Dirksen was isolationist, internationalist, champion...