Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chiang would open a second front on the Chinese mainland if the United States supplied him with planes, tanks, trucks, ships, and ammunition. This country should have learned by now that arms and reaction can't win the loyalty of the Chinese people. Beyond this, it is also a stupid business to force a ruler upon a country whose people have already rejected...
...those ignorant, stupid, opinionated and sometimes traitorous stuffed shirts who for years have shaped our foreign policy towards Asia, it was just the Mickey Finn the bartender ordered. For millions of other folk who do not read TIME but will be informed by those who do, I hope it is the political prelude to a deluge which will sweep these sub-mediocrities from office come 1952. That is, if we Americans are still around by then...
...Henry V. (for Vincent) Stebbins, special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, did his best to lead Medina through the intricacies of the Government's case. But over & over again came the patient complaints from the bench: "I don't get that," "I must be kind of stupid," "I don't understand...
Place of honor to Al Capp might have been justified as a depressing example of what our moronic majority feeds on and demands. Instead you appear to deem the pictures artistic, the tortured slapdash stories breathtaking, the primitive jargon and stupid misspellings sidesplitting. You are awed by that $300,000 a year, rather than appalled by the discrepancy between it and the earnings of scientists, researchers, technicians and others of real achievement. It's not your Capp cover and story I object to, it's your enthusiasm over juvenile trash for grownups...
...time the first returns were in and counted, several papers had announced that they would run no more ads in the campaign. Editor Frank A. Clarvoe of Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News said shortly: "It was a damned stupid campaign and whoever thought it up ought to have his head examined...