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Word: stupid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know, it's funny you would say that, because just the other day I met someone over the phones. I made a slip of the tongue--you know what 'talking backwards' is, like 'balking tackwards'--well, that's what happened. It wasn't deliberate, I just made a stupid mistake and it sounded really strange. We just started joking about it-me and the guy on the other end-and we started talking about what kind of night it was; the guy was telling me how busy he was, things like that. And this guy had a Texan accent...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Behind the Lines: | 10/8/1981 | See Source »

...would convince me that breakfast wasn't so very important. In relation, my stomach would attack us throughout the eleven o'clock lecture with sizzling pre-lunch hunger pains. Although I clearly remembered Procrastination's shortcomings, Organization was looking less attractive. She had me saving everything, even all those stupid Coop Charge receipts. "Why do we want a slip of paper with 'stationary' written on it twelve times?" She didn't answer until we started returning books. Procrastination and I had never saved anything but old newspapers and magazines, and somehow, they were always the only things we could find...

Author: By Robert M.mccord, | Title: A Harsh Mistress | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

...unreasonable the whole thing was. In the light of day it all seems stupid. Larry Pruitt a tailgunner? Shooting down the Harvard secondary? Let's be serious...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Soldiers in the Night | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

...real issue is what this implies for the possibility of peace in the Middle East," Landes said, adding, "How stupid we are to risk presidential prestige on this...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Professors Debate AW ACS Proposal | 10/2/1981 | See Source »

...SIGN ON the bus featured a stupid-looking Ryan O'Neal standing amidst a harem of bare-assed beauties. Actually they weren't exactly bare-assed; it's just that their ultra-tight blue jeans had plastic windows where the pockets should have been. "So Fine: a revealing comedy," it read. "Coming soon to a theater near you." "So bad," I thought, and continued to fight my way across Mass...

Author: By David J. Waldstein, | Title: More Than Just T & A | 10/1/1981 | See Source »

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