Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made me fill out all kinds of forms, including a W-4, which I did with an innocent, stupid honesty. He also laid down the law from the outset: You'll need a tie, and no dungarees. You should shave, and we don't let the stock boys wear tennis shoes." I hate people who call sneakers "tennis shoes," but I was a slave to capital, so I kept nodding and smiling...
...student who was involved said he hopes the telephone company will be satisfied to get its money back. "It was only a prank, really. I realize how it was a stupid thing to do. We have all learned our lesson," he added...
...residents of Kulyenchikov are not just stupid. They're idiots. The fish vendor sells carnations as haddock and the doctor can't read his own eye chart. The star pupil, whom the newest teacher, Leon Tulchinsky must cure, just learned to sit down a few days ago. Sophia is 18 years old. This would be just another pointless Simon situation commedy--a collection of Amelia Bedelia jokes, as one viewer put it--if it weren't for the necessity of affirmative action...
...enemy, something activist organizers have known since the days when they were rounding up Christians for the Crusades. For the civil rights movement as a whole and SNCC in particular, the villains were easy to come by. There were the club-swinging sheriffs, invariably paunchy, invariably cackling, invariably so stupid that they'd sic the dogs and turn on the firehoses and order the charge smack in front to the t.v. cameras. There were the hooded Klansmen, who blew up churches. There were the signs--"Whites Only" or "No Coloreds." As other movement historians have documented, civil rights leaders were...
...Brian is a wise sailor--he doesn't make stupid mistakes," John says. "His self-confidence--which you usually develop after several years--is also one of hie greatest strengths. The times Brian hasn't done well was when he wasn't totally sure of himself, or when he questioned his judgement on wind shifts...