Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overturned in the rugged country. "Of course it's dangerous," snorts Zink. "But I haven't any time for country clubs or flitting off to Europe. I'd rather build roads for Boy Scouts. I feel sorry for the lame, the weak, the ill and the stupid; they aren't going to run the country for you. What I'm trying to do is make a place where the smart will get smarter, the strong stronger, and the swift swifter...
Whether they could actually come to power, though, is much less certain, for they lack unity and capable leadership. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda has castigated them harshly: "Call them nationalists! I call them stupid idiots who do not know what they are saying." Even in the present crisis, the two Nationalist parties do not cooperate. While they threaten lurid bloodshed, they have not been able to organize even a makeshift government in exile, much less a general strike in Rhodesia. Their weakness may well be Smith's greatest strength...
Perhaps because they're stupid, perhaps because it's only fifty days before Christmas, the nation's bookies have made one of their rare catastrophic errors on today's Ivy point spreads. Yale has been installed a 13-point favorite over Penn, which is patently ridiculous. Our Ivy prognostications this season have been 76 per cent correct, and we will stake our life savings that Yale doesn't win by more than one touchdown...
...farmhouse above Nakuru as a brewery director. Says Blundell, who was in charge of putting down the Mau Mau insurrection: "I know now that there is no relationship between the African's outlook today and what it was before. He is much happier and more contented. It is stupid to embark on a policy which must fundamentally turn the African into your enemy. You would then have to control him ad infinitum, and that isn't bloody possible...
...employed at the Harvard Coop as a stockboy and have often loaded or unloaded Coop trucks on that stupid platform. I think it is a hinderance to the workmen and it should not be there. However, the fact remains that all Harvard Coop trucks park on the platform...