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Word: stupid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thin that the quarter appeared to be sitting upon it. He walked over to Curtain's desk and pressed the top of the quarter, which fell magically to the desk, and the writer walked away giggling, leaving Curtain to try to find a nonexistent hole in the glove. "Stupid trick," Curtain shouted as she poked the coin at the rubber. "What a stupid trick...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Live From New York: It's Al Franken | 4/16/1976 | See Source »

...like people we get applications from who want to write for the show," Franken said. "They send us things, but they never consider what goes into a show. They don't know what we want. That's what happened to us when we started out, and it was just stupid of us to think that people were going to take things just because we liked them...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Live From New York: It's Al Franken | 4/16/1976 | See Source »

Matthew L. Lifflander, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Jackson campaign in New York, said "I think Udall's the winner tonight." Of Jackson's assertion that he would win a majority of New York's delegates, Lifflander said, "Oh, well, he made a stupid prediction...

Author: By Thomas S. Blanton and James Gleick, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Jackson, Carter and Ford Win N.Y., Wisc. Primaries | 4/7/1976 | See Source »

...Bonaparte, Ex-Presidente Fled Elba, his own San Clemente, And hinted Helsinki Was stupid and stinky, Which did not do a lot for détente...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 29, 1976 | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...trip, where for once you had time to lasso a confusion of ideas, grit your teeth and set your heels, tying them up before they escape and presenting the prize in a blue binder and a parade of marching IBM Selectric lines to show you've tamed them. Pretty stupid, thought I... and proceeded to get seized by a brutal addiction to Eric Ambler. I read every damn thing he wrote, practically (even a thesis has its tiny leaks), and I don't even have a magna to show...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: My Senior Thesis | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

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