Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stupid can Geoffrey Fisher and the Anglican clergy get? The absurdity of lumping together doctrinal differences and malicious lies is so repellent . . . The result will be the return of more wanderers to the mother church. Well-I offered up the Divine Office yesterday for the poor fellows...
Brauer could be brusque; lagging subordinates heard him roar: "You are so stupid." He told citizens of his city, which was old when New York was still Indian territory: "In America they do it thus and so." He wrathfully shoved aside the time-consuming forms and protocol of German bureaucracy that he called "the new totalitarianism of our time." He irritated his own Social Democratic Party by publicly lambasting "shallow, commonplace Socialism, exhausting itself in theory...
Excitement Centers. Workers of the same species are much alike physically, but psychologically they may vary widely. Some are lazy, some are stupid. Some are eager beavers always looking for trouble. These "excitement centers" are the leaders of the colony. When they see a job that needs doing, they pitch in furiously. Other ants copy their activity, and the excitement spreads until a swarm of ants is busy at the job. If the eager leaders are removed from a colony, its life slows down so much that it may disintegrate...
...political associates on the national scene . . ." With a typical retort, Governor Thomas E. Dewey promptly accepted the challenge. Said he: "Apparently Wagner is trying to charge that some member of the national Administration appealed to me unsuccessfully in the interest of Joseph Fay. I always thought the boy was stupid, but never before that he was crazy. No such appeal has ever been made to me by anyone connected with the national Administration...
...Well, we're not so stupid. You think of Radcliffe, you think of Harvard. If anybody thinks about either. Then all the organizations got your letters the same day saying you were coming. We're not so stupid. We knew you'd gone down to Yale last year, so (pause) we, WE called YALE! Pause. "We got the real scoop...