Word: stupidity
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...