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Word: stupid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite a few problems here. Mattlin believes he has succeeded in remaining a social, friendly person. "I think people who are disabled often feel it's a hopeless case. They think it's their dominant feature and the only way they'll be identified. That's stupid. It's just not true...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: The Quest for a Fuller Existence | 5/15/1981 | See Source »

Deal critizes the Newsweek articles for blaming the ubiquitous "they" for the problems of public education. "'They' are greedy, lazy, stupid, misguided, but I can never find 'them' when I go into schools. I find committed, beleaguered, inspired people who do the best they can to educate kids," Deal says, adding with a laugh. "I'm one of 'them,' and I'm not like that...

Author: By Kelly S. Goode, | Title: Educating the Educators | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...wages paid by Mel, owner of the diner where she works as a waitress. Shirley, a black former cab driver who was the wise and friendly heroine of One in a Million, inherited a conglomerate, but she was counterpointed against another executive who was pompous, stiff and stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crooks, Conmen and Clowns | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...representative of the national office of the Committee In Support of the People of El Salvador (CISPES) in Washington, D.C. agreed. "People don't make up stories like this. It would be political suicide and the FDR (Democratic Revolutionary Front) and its sympathizers are not that stupid...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: Reading Between the Lines | 4/24/1981 | See Source »

...Tommy used to look like Errol Flynn. He really did. That was back when they still had pinball in there, real pinball, with the numbers on rollers that clanked around when you scored. That was before they put in the pastry section. Before they painted all those stupid cartoons on the pillars, too. That was when Tommy looked like Errol Flynn. It was really something to see. They had waiters, too. Real waiters. And violinists on weekends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tommy's Lunch | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

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