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Word: stupid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tehran, Barbara Timm, who had journeyed there to see her hostage son, Marine Sergeant Kevin Hermening, snapped: "I'm angry that our President would do something so stupid." Accompanied by her husband to a press conference in the office of Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr, she said, "We deeply regret" the U.S. rescue attempt, and offered "apologies" to the Iranian people. Then, as Banisadr smiled, she posed for cameramen under a portrait of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, embraced her husband and broke into tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: For the Families, a New Concern | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

Zito, who said "Terrence, This is Stupid Stuff" exemplified "escapism versus whatever its opposite is," indicated his two favorite lines from the poem were: "Malt does more than Milton can, To justify God's waste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boylston | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

Completing the race in 3:54, Weston said he started off at an "incredibly stupid pace of six-and-a-half-minute miles" that caused him to cramp up around the 15-mile mark. "The first 15 miles I was thinking it's odd how I'm passing people, then the next ten miles I was thinking it was odd how people were passing me." Although Weston admitted that he didn't think he would finish at Heartbreak Hill, the Government major said he realized he "had to finish. The two last things I wanted to do in Boston were...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Miles and Trials of Crimson Marathoners | 4/23/1980 | See Source »

...begin on the budget tonight. "If the capped budget goes through, we might as well go into the food services business," Lannon said last night. "I've already cut almost everything I've done in the last five years and I'm still $2 million shy of Gov. Kings' stupid cap." Lannon added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City May Have to Slash School Budget | 4/2/1980 | See Source »

...believing its puzzles could best be worked out by biochemists. "I spared myself years of frustration," he says. Most of his colleagues, aware of the difficulties of interferon studies, considered his decision totally rational. Said one distinguished virologist at the time: "Anybody who abandons interferon research cannot be entirely stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big IF in Cancer | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

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