Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shopping for much of anything in Mexico. "The tourists are scared away," says Salesman Manuel Vasquez, surveying his empty marble-products shop in Juárez, which logically should be packed with Texans seeking more for their dollar. "Our business is off about 50%. Capitalism works. This type of stupid socialism doesn...
...sells wine diluted with water). As he took the helm of a riverboat on the Rhine last week, Schmidt implied that he was glad to be rid of the Free Democrats. "With the F.D.P. you can count on one thing: their lack of character," he declared. "If they were stupid but still loyal, that would be worse for us, but they were unreliable as well as stupid...
Although it may be presumptuous of me, a lowly, probably stupid cheerleader, to criticize so intellectual a person as the President of The Harvard Crimson, I feel compelled to comment on Paul M. Barrett's recent flight of fancy entitled "Sis-Boom-Bah." Like Mr. Barrett, I bemoan the loss of many fine Harvard traditions. However, I am less dismayed over that decrease in "final club snobbery" than over the collapse of the old mainstay of journalism--accuracy. Call me old-fashioned and reactionary, but I long for a return to the ancient "VERITAS" standards...
Never missing an opportunity to play down his own accomplishments, Verba claims he inadvertently stumbled into the liaison role which consumed a tremendous amount of time in February and March. "I became one of the mediators be cause in my usual stupid way I shot my mouth off in a Faculty Council meeting, saying the Council was too big to deal directly with the nitty-gritty of the issues," Verba says. "Never make suggestions of that sort because they'll stick you with it. That's how I got involved in that...
...weapons possession. Nationally, however, just over half of all prisoners are locked up for such crimes, and in Georgia, for instance, the overwhelming majority of prisoners are serving time for non-violent crimes. The rest are not angels with dirty faces but crooks, to be sure?thieves, mostly?stupid or bad or both. Yet they are not generally the outlaws who make it scary even to think about going downtown for dinner and a movie...