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Word: stupid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about what else might yet be revealed as time went on. Admitted one frustrated senior White House aide: "People are saying, 'God, can't you do better than this?' The answer is we're trying. We're not doing this because we're stupid. We know how badly it hurts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Battles A Revolt | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...that just what we all needed? There it was, 87 degrees outside with hot lights beating down on us and 75,000 people breathing hot air on each other, and the stupid game went into overkill. And it was only an extradition game! So they played for another few minutes until the Bears got their big break--one of the Cardinals from the city of the Golden Gate Arch dribbled the ball, which a Bear blockhead recovered and ran over the blue line and into the "n"-zone for three points. The crowd went wild because the Bears...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: First Down, Five Months to Go | 8/8/1980 | See Source »

...George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and an expert on nuclear weapons, yesterday called the shift in policy "stupid and juvenile," saying, "the whole business of emphasizing counterforce weapons is an extremely dangerous move that accelerates the possibility of nuclear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Experts Disagree On Nuclear Strategy Shift | 8/8/1980 | See Source »

...observers felt the President had been badly hurt. Georgia Pollster Claibourne Darden predicted that, coming on top of the President's other problems, the Billy factor would be especially harmful. Explained Darden: "If everything was going fine otherwise, the reaction would just be 'It's his stupid brother,' but now Billy's image transfers to Jimmy." California Pollster Mervin Field felt that the Billy affair provides "a disturbing reminder" of the President's previous embarrassing friendship for wheeler-dealer Banker and White House Insider Bert Lance. "The Billy thing puts President Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burden of Billy | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...grieving widow who now knew for sure that her lover had done in her man, the size 14 cop. And Ryan, he dies a death fit for a B-School hoodlum: "Alley Boy squeezed the trigger again and again and again and again. Tommy Ryan's body made stupid drunken lurches all over the table. He reached out a hand and grabbed a dinner platter and pulled it with him to the floor. The big lobster lay next to Tommy Ryan on the thick Persian...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Stomping on Breslin's Ground | 7/25/1980 | See Source »

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