Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opinion, no. Mr. Truman is not a stupid man. He was blind on this score...
...school, the other children teased him and made fun of him. At home, my mother, purporting to help him with his reading, would beat him on the head with the book and scream at him that he was no good, stupid, and would surely end up in prison. This would go on for hours...
...Most Important Act. Day after day, the convention denounced the Eisenhower Administration. Reuther began the attack in his keynote speech: "Big business has moved in. They are taking over the Government lock, stock and barrel . . . they have turned the New Deal into the Big Steal." Assailing Republican leaders as "stupid, selfish men," Reuther said: "We are keeping score for 1954, and we are going to even the score at that time...
...written by Steve Allen. The music for the featured song, Forbidden Love, was composed by Steve Allen. The leading man: Steve Allen. Allen admits to even greater versatility: "I can play the tuba, make up songs from any four notes struck at random, and do a lot of stupid little things like a tap dance with my fingernails." In addition, Allen records bebop fairy tales, is writing a novel ("It's about the crackup of a marriage"), is working on a critical analysis of his fellow TV comics ranging from Milton Berle to Red Buttons, and is doing...
These defects will continue until key decisions are taken out of military hands and given to civilian scientists. at the present time, all weapons research is directed by officers of the three services. These men are neither stupid nor incompetent; they simply lack the scientific background to make decisions for themselves. The services actually object to giving high rank to their scientific personnel. It nearly took an act of Congress to promote naval engineering expert Hyman Rickover from captain to admiral last year. Rickover is a specialist, and the Navy, as well as the Army and Air Force, insists that...