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Word: stupid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department officials admitted that they could not find any such statement. And a Defense Department official said that given Nicaragua's lack of modern weaponry and the tortuous terrain separating Nicaragua from its neighbors. "We don't expect an attack because we don't think they would be that stupid...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr, | Title: Stopping Reagan From Being Reagan | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...dilemma. No one can win. No one is wrong until things turn violent, when the good ole boys put on T shirts reading SECRET MEMBER, KU KLUX KLAN and try to blow these new boat people out of the water. It is as if both sides were waging a stupid, losing war all over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Immigrant Tragedy in Texas Alamo Bay | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...longterm aspirations are in a more serious vein. In the future, Moore hopes to work for a theater that is both popular and able to convey a message. "I don't like meaningless Broadway entertainment, but I also don't like to go and set there and feel stupid, trying to figure out the director's meaning." Moore thinks that avant-garde theater is becoming too elitist and inaccessible, and terms it "pretentious...

Author: By Rebecca W. Carman, | Title: Moore: Treading the Boards | 4/6/1985 | See Source »

There are all different kinds and degrees of prejudice, but it's time people recognized another kind of discrimination: the equation, at Harvard and elsewhere, of southern with stupid...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Southern Discomfort | 4/6/1985 | See Source »

That's a pretty stupid thing to say. My upper middle class enclave just happens to be 15 minutes closer to downtown than the ones in the suburbs. Ah, but herein lies' "attitude." Admittedly, I think big cities should impose commuter taxes to force rich parasites, who enjoy the docile rurified advantages of suburban existence, to pay for their share of may city's public services. Of course in my mind, the city life offers many advantages over life in the suburbs, but that's just a personal valuation, and I have no business foisting it on anyone else...

Author: By Nicholes S. Wurf, | Title: Every Town Is Our Town | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

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