Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mere $7.2 million from Czar Alexander II in 1867. In the U.S., Dobrynin noted, the deal "was known as Seward's Folly, but Alexander was known as foolish in my own country long before he sold Alaska. Sometimes we feel it's another proof of how stupid czars were." Dobrynin then cheered himself with the observation that the Soviet Union is big enough as is. "Our Alaska is Siberia," he said. "It's bigger than all the United States...
...isolated and ostracized will mean loneliness. Loneliness is an enemy of a person and of a nation. It makes you do funny things, stupid things-this we will have to guard against. But we can hibernate-and fairly long too. All of us, black and white, will suffer. But we will not be the only ones...
...deliberately kept fees and tolls as low as possible. Says David McCullough, author of The Path Between the Seas, a meticulous history of the canal's construction: "The fact is no power on earth could have done what we did. We've done a lot of small, stupid things in the Canal Zone over the years, but we've never done anything operating the canal that we need be ashamed of." With considerable reason, Americans can relinquish control of the great ditch out of a sense of pride-magnanimity combined with good sense...
...yearns to go home, but insists that he will never return unless he is granted the artistic freedom he has found elsewhere. "It is very, very stupid. They think they can change history, but it is not possible for these stupid things to continue for a long time. Americans have this sense of freedom. They say, 'I don't like this! Pfui!' And they make it new! They are free of the presence of history. And in America I am feeling the same way. I am without limit. I make exactly what I want...
...give and receive billets-doux. To kindle ardor in the souls of her readers, Antonia, 44, has compiled Love Letters (Knopf; $8.95), a tender anthology of 135 amorous notes dashed off through the centuries by lovers of distinction. Sample sweet nothings: "You are a wretch, truly perverse, truly stupid, a real Cinderella. You never write to me at all," a peevish Napoleon scrawled to Josephine from Verona. "Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry," wrote Oscar Wilde to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. Complained Benjamin Franklin to his platonic French friend Mme. Brillon: "You find innumerable faults...