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Word: stupidities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...significance of the numbers really is? If Japan was brought to its knees with only two relatively small atomic bombs, just what is the real difference in what happens whether 50 nuclear warheads are built or 2,500? The trading off of numbers borders on being imbecilic. Just one stupid nation could blackmail the rest of the world with just one bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 23, 1974 | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

...hurt somebody's feelings, when I did something to make myself look ridiculous or not ladylike, like when I fell in the Tidal Basin, do I feel guilty. The next day I just couldn't sleep and I have been thinking ever since. It was just a stupid accident, but it happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fanne: Acting 18 and Feeling 50 | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

Harvard may win a national championship this season. Whatever the record of this fine team may be, I intend to enjoy watching them play, and success would please no fan more than myself. But I'm afraid I must resign myself to having my enjoyment diminished by the rude, stupid behavior of a few imbeciles who don't seem to understand what the sport is about. Sincerely, Stephen Spaulding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters to the Sports Editors | 12/10/1974 | See Source »

...open marriage merely "an agreement to allow outside affairs"? All this time I thought it involved a few minor things like mutual trust honesty and the ability to be a whole enough person to love someone without choking him off from his own potential. Defining open marriage with that stupid, glib little phrase is like defining the ocean as a can of tuna fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 9, 1974 | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...Sometimes my aggressiveness gets the best of me," Hirschfeld said after the match. "Today it was controlled, and it paid off. Farley was stupid to attack on that last point...

Author: By Steven M. Heller, | Title: Harvard Fencers Thrash Feeble MIT Squad, 18-9, For First Win of Season | 12/5/1974 | See Source »

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