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Word: stupidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While the Air Force and its Strategic Air Command took over an urgent proprietorship in the atomic age, the Navy fought stoutly to preserve its great fleet, to keep a maximum of ships at sea. It fought the Air Force concept of long-range nuclear retaliation as immoral and stupid-and came perilously close to foreclosing its own future as anything but a sub-hunting ferry command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Admiral & the Atom | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...finishing up my two-year tour with Uncle Sam, and therefore I had a great deal of interest in your version of the Parris Island tragedy [April 23]. The article was excellent. Sergeant McKeon made a "stupid mistake," but perhaps the real tragedy is the preparation, and the fighting of war itself. ROBERT M. PALMER Long Island City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

People waving, screaming, "Go get em!" We will, sonny, don't you worry. Stupid girl, pointing at my knees. My word, I think I'm beginning to perspire. Vulgar...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: A Veteran's Guide to the Big Race | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

...painters managed to outrage the respectable standards of their day with more gusto than France's master of 19th century realism, Gustave Courbet. In his time he kept up a running battle with critics, who found his work sordid and common, termed him a "butcher" and "a great stupid painter." Today Courbet's work is attacked from the new academy of abstraction as too photographic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: NEW ACQUISITION: BOSTON'S COURBET | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...fantastic what a cheap price is put on 'education' at this school. We are all just plain stupid, spending years preparing for education in specified fields when a man with nothing but brawn and no brains can get $17,000 a year for chasing a bunch of ninnies around a field with a ball. Every time I think of it, I get so outraged I could spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Price Football? | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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