Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press conference pointed out that the union had failed to provide sufficient manpower to bring in the crops before they were in danger of rotting. Said Reagan of the union leaders: "Sometimes they remind me of a dog sitting on a sharp rock howling with pain, who is too stupid to get up." Then he ordered his department of health and welfare to find out how many of the state's welfare recipients would be willing to go out and work in the fields to harvest or risk losing their benefits...
...looked for hints. But one wasn't sure what to make of the Twins. In their road uniforms they seemed grim. Kaat, the starting pitcher, was monolithic, utilitarian and unimaginative. He made only the briefest attempt at a windup as he loosened up. Allison was big and stupid (his stupidity proved crucial), and Killebrew--the Killer--infused his pudginess with evil...
Monro's warning last Spring followed reports of sharply increasing use of marijuana in the Yard. "If a student is stupid enough to misuse his time here foling around with illegal and dangerous drugs," the letter stated, "our view is that he should leave college and make room for people prepared to take good advantage of the college oportunity...
...sometimes struck Clara that her name had nothing to do with her at all. She felt that it was an ugly, stupid name, and if only she had a prettier one-say, Marguerite-some of her yearnings would be satisfied. Not that Clara was ever exactly sure what she was yearning for. Born in a flatbed truck on a muddy Arkansas highway, brought up in a series of squalid, lice-infested migrant labor camps, Clara simply suffered from a painfully tugging notion that life was a nasty, frightening dream, and that somehow, some day, she would wake...
Spindly and bespectacled, Kroyer's own background smacks more of a dropout than a Danish Da Vinci. A haberdasher's son who never went be yond grammar school, Kroyer even now winces at technical journals on the ground that "you risk reading yourself stupid." He explains his self-schooled skills by saying that "the recognition of a demand works on me like a magnet. I then set out to define the problems and correct them...