Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maximum Risk. Limited hot pursuit (or lukewarm pursuit) puts General Clark and his soldiers in another of the stupid and dangerous positions that have characterized the war in Korea. It exposes them to maximum risks, ties their hands for counteraction. As General Clark reported last week, the Reds have used the eleven months of truce talks to double their air and ground strength...
...majority of cases only sexually perverted men (to use the word carelessly) could have perpetrated such crudities. Imagination these drawings do not lack; but it is of a twisted nature and content that we presume no normally developed student could have concocted, even allowing for the merely stupid and gross person who customarily scribbles on toilet walls...
Councilman Chester A. Higley, chairman of the public safety committee termed Lynch's motion "foolish and stupid--absolutely ridiculous. This is mass punishment, and I'm not in favor of it. This won't come up before a public safety meeting for a long time, I'll see to that...
...Mostly the miners, whose depression memories are still green, were afraid that if hard times came, the Italians would be competing for their jobs. Besides, in times of danger when teamwork is essential, the Italians might not understand orders. The British miners had other objections. "The reasons are stupid," said one mine union official. "Some of our men say the Italians smell-they eat garlic. Others say that they are just ice-cream merchants. Some don't like the Italians because they don't speak our language...
Picking Flowers. At school, there was a big, bony-faced girl. The other children called her "Stewguts," and baited her mercilessly. Her stupid younger sister was in Chambers' classroom. One recess, Stewguts peered in warily, and, seeing only Chambers and her sister, slipped into the room...