Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonChristian" and said: "We believe that all peoples of God's family have an equal right in His sight." The Roman Catholic Apostolic Delegate in Natal said: "I can see nothing which can scripturally forbid mixed marriages." The Anglican Bishop of Natal denounced the law as "utterly stupid and completely unworkable...
...each case the police solved the crime, but, Nash pointed out: "These teen-agers (your kids) are constantly being shown that if they aren't as stupid as that very, very dumb and ignorant criminal portrayed on the radio (who got the 75 Gs, but got caught in a two-way radio police trap), that he, the teenager, could easily get away with it ... Lights flash on; bells ring; he visualizes $75,000 stacks of greenbacks stashed in his bureau drawer. He says to himself, 'It's about time somebody with a little intelligence went after...
...Tolls, the word obscenity was substituted for each bad Hemingway word-e.g., the memorable line, "I obscenity in the milk of your fathers." Cosmopolitan decided to use the word deletion in parentheses. Sample edited Hemingway line: "Every time you shoot now can be the last shot and no stupid (deletion) should be allowed to ruin...
...exceedingly narrow-minded and conceited people, and that's the reason why they dare say there exists, at the most, one spirit-theirs, of course! . . . Each tribe has the god it deserves, for gods are made in the image of those that believe in them. Therefore the stupid have a stupid god, the intelligent an intelligent god, the good a good god, the wicked a wicked god. The god of the white men is jealous, selfish and greedy because they themselves are jealous, selfish and greedy . . . The white men's religion is designed to restrain the wickedness...
...could not take the chance of keeping the Columbus people waiting," he writes. "Neither had I any desire to see the stupid information gathered about me in the hands of the FBI... And I was fed up with the whole business. I did what nobody else does... I took back my passport and my application for a visa...