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Word: stupid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students have an almost eerie ability to identify rock groups on hearing a few bars of the music. They know much about sports. They can make exquisite discriminations about the relative merits of various commercials on TV." We appreciate his tact; after all, Marius might simply have called us stupid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A College at Risk? | 10/20/1987 | See Source »

...graduate. Reason: he paid a student to write a paper for him about Thomas Hardy's novels. Although admitting that he cheated, Ford denied that he was caught because he accidentally dropped the bill for the student's services into the professor's lap. "I may be stupid," he told Biographer Booton Herndon, "but I'm not that stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henry Ford II: 1917-1987: My Name Is on the Building | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...definitely not proud of what I have done,but there was no intention to harm the student atthe desk or the community," Williams saidyesterday. "I was simply making a light-heartedjoke about what I perceived to be a stupid prank.Later I realized it was a serious thing...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Defensive Lineman Permitted To Play Despite Probation | 10/7/1987 | See Source »

...given in Moscow." To the surprise of Americans, the Soviets' well-deserved reputation for a plodding, low-tech, assembly-line approach to space exploration has paid off. Says James Beggs, former NASA administrator: "There's been a habit in this country of thinking of the Soviets as stupid and that they steal all their technology. That's just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surging Ahead | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...woman and a force of nature still remembered with awe in East Africa. "I don't think Beryl ever thought how her behavior must have appeared to the people of the real world," a friend once said, "and if she had thought, she would have said it was stupid and would certainly never have let it worry her for a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Force Of Nature STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING: THE BIOGRAPHY OF BERYL MARKHAM | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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