Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve-year-olds that usually was relegated to the nursery-school level. But discipline? Ah, that's a dirty word and used only to describe the old Prussian army . . . But the greatest loss of all has been good, old-fashioned common sense. Without this, the genius becomes stupid in society, and the stupid, with just a modicum of it, can raise his I.Q. . . . Today, junior's hotspot is no longer his little red bottom. It's his little psyche that gets all the attention . . . and, up to now, no one has ever given any thought to what...
...Admiral Lajaro Burgos foiled Paulino by flying off to Spain and tattling to the dictator. On Trujillo's return, El Caribe concluded lyrically, "the sword of the Biblical angel flashed over the stupid head [of Paulino], casting him out of paradise and into reproach...
...fraudulent misrepresentation by ambitious Democratic operators, but the people must know the truth about the public business. The Republican record of progressive, humanitarian achievement for the people of this state is long and proud, and shines all the more brightly in comparison to the shoddy Democratic period of stubborn, stupid and shortsighted political obstruction . . . [The Democrats are] bankrupt of political conscience and any sense of responsibility to the people . . . Never trust your city, your state or your nation to destructive demagogues, who try to torpedo sound programs and have nothing themselves to offer. Don't ever let them...
...Knowland and Johnson on the question of Communist China's admission to the U.N. I ... am opposed to the admission of Communist China to our world congress, but . . . being a world power (which she definitely is), she has valid claim, and I think it would be narrow and stupid for the U.S. to withdraw from the U.N. One cannot bargain with a nation if one avoids it. One cannot run away from one's enemies. I say, meet with the Communist Chinese. Rather lose pride across the conference table than lose lives across no man's land...
...week's end, Nye himself was heard. Churchill, as War Secretary in 1919, had tried to stop the Russian revolution by armed intervention and by starving it out, and now he was trying to do the same thing with the Chinese revolution, he charged. "Churchill is as stupid in 1954" as he was then, cried Bevan. "We shall bring upon us a third and last world war by not realizing that you cannot do anything with these revolutionaries except to work with them, help them through their difficulties, and not make it necessary for them to oppress their...